On the 70th Birthday of Ian Curtis and the Calendar of Saints
Today, July 15th, is the seventieth birthday of Ian Curtis. And the outpouring of remembrance by the post-punk world has been great... Most likely, he would have hated all of this.
Burke Gerstenschlager
The Eternal Return
The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but
Imagining Epiphanies of Artistic Action
You are invited on January 7th to a creative discussion about epiphanies of artistic action and how we can transform our communities and ourselves.
An Update About My Joy Division Book
This blog has been mostly on hiatus for the past four (?) years because I have been focusing on writing my book, Tears in Their Eyes: Joy Division as Theological Lamentation. I am finally nearing completion and it's about time to start creating some buzz about it. This book approaches pop music and theology from
“When There’s No Future, How Can There Be Sin?”: A Response to David Dault on Nihilisms
[TW: I mention suicide in this piece.]The Two NihilismsOn his Substack, David Dault has written an important essay entitled The post-American Present, where he considers two nihilisms that are two sides of the same coin, omega nihilism and alpha nihilism. He asked his readers to help him think through these nihilisms, the former abandoning the