The Prophetic Metaverse of “Snow Crash”
Feature Articles
“The metaverse is having a moment,” wrote Casey Newton in July of 2021. The project to create a shared virtual world…
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Contemplating the Depth of Things: Maximus the Confessor on the Church
Feature Articles
In his Mystagogy, Maximus the Confessor presents a commentary on the profound significance of the Church and the divine…
Hyperreality: The Prison of Our Own Device
Book Reviews
The tendency of any tool—from the spear to the smartphone—to change human beings and the way they interact with the…
The Human Figure in Art: Watch Now!
Feature Articles
Humanum is delighted to offer a video recording of our first in-person event, a presentation by Dr. Sarah Bond on "The…
For Farm and Family: Reflections on Making
Feature Articles
I was eight years old when I wrote my first computer program. It was a random number generator—a small but sure victory…
Why Start a Trade School?
Feature Articles
There is much that could be said and is said, by unions and technical colleges nation-round, about the trades: they…
Makers and Keepers: On the Goodness of Things
Book Reviews
My daughter stopped, crouched down, and took hold of something. A seedpod this time, with tiny silicone-like spikes all…
The Law of the Land, the Sea and the Air
Book Reviews
It is obvious that what has “gone awry” in our “modern” economies is that we have, first of all, reversed the hierarchy…
Restoring Not Rebuilding Notre Dame
Witness
April 15, 2019 marked a pivotal event in the history of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris when a blazing fire burnt down…
Is Your Job a Waste of Time?
Book Reviews
In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, anthropologist David Graeber proposes that there is a vast swath of jobs (anywhere from…