Monthly Archives: April 2026

Space Travel, Aliens in Sci-Fi, and Xenomythology

This week I made some cool discoveries in Substack with new authors addressing topics I’ve followed for years. The first has application to the recent success of the Artemis II mission. I watched the rocket blast off into space and kept tabs with its mission over the days that followed, and like millions of other […]

Identity Construction and the Other-Than-Human

In the past one of the areas of study and commentary on this blog has looked at identity and popular culture narratives in the form of vampires and Otherkin. I hadn’t come across this recently until I started reflecting on philosopher Charles Taylor’s influential work related to secular modernity. In his book A Secular Age […]

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