Video Nasty: The Moral Apocalypse in Koji Suzuki'sRing

Beyond apocalypse and apology: a moral defense of abortion.

The movement to preserve and advance reproductive freedom is suffering the consequences of a great victory. The establishment of the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade was a monumental step that changed the lives of American women. Girls grow up today under the mantle of Roe, never having known a world in which illegal, unsafe , degrading and sometimes fatal abortions were the norm...

Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

Moral Panics and Video Games

Making Moral Choices in Video Games

Video games can provide immersive experiences in fantasy stories of good and evil. as players become agents in their complex narrative arcs, they develop skills of moral perception and decision-making. more importantly, they may experience what J. r. r. Tolkien calls " eucatastrophe. " S hould we treat video games—at least some of them—as objects of art worthy of serious study? We tend to dismi...

APOCALYPSE SOON † by

Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented whose history is indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM) universe, but whose future is very much shorter. For sensible values of the deceleration parameter (0 < q 0 < 1), its age is greater than 85% of the Hubble time, thus res...