Studying actuarial science at DePauw gives me the opportunity me to apply principles in mathematics to human thinking. Growing up in Brooklyn, Elisha Amadasu ’26 identified his intellectual passion at ...
DePauw and Wabash have met on the football field since 1890 and have competed for possession of the Monon Bell since 1932. The 130th Monon Bell Classic will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2024 ...
A storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is ...
Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation have as its motto the words of a Frenchman, Pierre Bertaux: At one time it was hoped that ...
We accept the lure of annihilation, only to discover that it is a temporary condition, a gateway to renewal and rebirth. This is perhaps the most pervasive theme in all the world’s religious myth and ...
1. The Outside Observer in Utopia. The 20th century has seen the growth of the social sciences and the "humane sciences" as one of its more important developments in speculative thought, a fact ...
It is not that we are connoisseurs of chaos, but that we are surrounded by it, and equipped for co-existence with it only by our fictive powers.—Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the ...
When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...
From its birth in the Jazz Age, Anglo-American science fiction took more than three decades to reach the zenith of its classical development in the 1950s. By contrast, the rise of Japanese science ...
In this article I shall discuss Philip K. Dick's Valis, relating this controversial novel to his mature works, both in terms of themes (the question of Dick's abandonment of politics for theology) and ...