Friday Links
January 24, 2024
Shadowlands Dispatch
Climbing the Mountains of Modernity & Ekstasis and the Chicken Truck
The Honest Broker: Notes Toward a New Romanticism
Katy Carl reviews Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Collegium Institute & DT’s Global Catholic Literature Seminar: The Roots of Unknowing
Shadowlands Dispatch
Scholarly Dispatch is a scholarly magazine (available on Substack with both free and paid subscriptions) produced by the Society for Women of Letters. In this recent edition, Poetica, their monthly poetry column features an interview with James Matthew Wilson. Using “cultural apologetics,” Shadowlands Dispatch
look[s] at the meaning of the world around us to perceive how Christ the Logos, “for whom and by whom all things exist,” is revealed in everything from fairy tales to Cubist art to AI. In the Shadowlands Dispatch, you will find articles, reviews, recommendations that will help you both identify culture that deforms the soul with distorted meaning and culture that moves the soul “further up and further in” toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
Climbing the Mountains of Modernity & Ekstasis and the Chicken Truck
In Episode 2.1 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast explores the question of what it mean to be “modern?” “through the test case of mountain climbing and rock climbing. And John-Paul Heil provides a response, telling the story of how he almost lost his head while playing chicken with a poultry truck.
The Honest Broker: Notes Toward a New Romanticism
Ted Gioia on how “technocracy had grown so oppressive and manipulative it would spur a backlash. And that our rebellion might resemble the Romanticist movement of the early 1800s.”
Katy Carl reviews: Why Do the Heathen Rage?
To open this new book is to know O’Connor in a new way and grow to love her even more, despite her acknowledged flaws. In the central character of Walter Tilman—an intellectual trapped on his family’s farm, Meadow Oaks, not unlike O’Connor trapped at Andalusia—we find her searing critical wit (“Hysteria affects syntax”) alongside her tenderness rooted in the love of God (“The letter in his hand was an invitation, a plea, a cry from the heart”). We also see, through Walter, how the effects of this tenderness could be cooled by her own certainty of being right (“I’m leaving my death to humanity, so they can learn”).
Collegium Institute & DT’s Global Catholic Literature Seminar: The Roots of Unknowing
Join us for 4 Mondays in March to discuss the novellas of Jon Fosse. This Global Catholic Literature seminar this spring will explore the roots of human knowing, naming, and dwelling between two worlds. It will take us into spaces of light and dark, presence and absence, the kataphatic and the apophatic. It will deepen an appreciation for both the numinous otherness of the unknown and for the breadth, height, and depth of the knowable truth. Follow the link for more information and use DT24 for a DT reader discount.
