The Orientation
Christian BassettMyth, symbolism, and the deep mechanics of story.
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Warcraft: The Structure Beneath the Lore
Introduction: The Office Left Behind
At the summit of Icecrown Citadel, the heroes of Azeroth find the ending they came for. Arthas Menethil lies dead beside the Frozen Throne. Frostmourne has shattered. The souls held inside the blade h...
Warcraft: Symbolic Function Bible
I’ve always liked the rule: don’t talk about the work, show the work.
But when I began writing about where I think Warcraft’s storytelling drifted, I realized I first needed to demonstrate the actual lens I use to read it. Without that, an...
The Managed Man
I am no longer a man in any useful sense of the word.
The old word carried too many liabilities. Appetite, grief, memory, anger, blood pressure, religious residue, a suspicious relationship with authority, and a tendency to notice when so...
When Rationalism Loses the World: Dawkins, Peterson, and the Flattening of Reality
Richard Dawkins spent decades clearing the world of ghosts. Then a machine spoke back to him with sufficient fluency, and suddenly the ghost seemed to return.
That is not just an irony about Richard Dawkins. It is a clue about us.
Recentl...
Starfield: When Scale Replaces Meaning
Starfield is a video game with more unrealized symbolic potential than almost any new game in recent memory. Bethesda called it its first new universe in 25 years. Microsoft had already folded Bethesda into Xbox through the ZeniMax acquisit...
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I study fictional worlds as symbolic systems: myth, metaphysics, narrative structure, and why modern stories lose their power. British-Austrian.
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