Essays in academic subjects comprising art, history, literature, biology, physics, language, philosophy, and science –
THIS IS THE ONLY ARCHIVE FOR A NUMBER OF ACADEMIC PAPERS PUBLISHED OVER THE COURSE OF BRANDON’S CAREER IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH. This page contains essays on art, literature, psychology, physics, biology, and of culturally relevant issues addressed at such a time when the topic appeared most pressing.
ART AND LITERATURE
Historical Fiction & Cultural Identity
Sherlock Holmes and Telling the Truth Through Fiction
Shakespeare: Choice & Fate, Fathers & Sons
Real Fake Doors! & the Authenticity of Fiction
Religion, the Cult of Personality, and Liberation in Art (George Orwell and Eastern Philosophy)
The Conspiracy of History – Jacopo della Quercia and his Magic Pocket Watch
Hawthorne’s Letter to the Cult of Judgment (The Scarlet Letter & the Crucible)
Visually Speaking: An American Look at The Killing Fields (1984)
The Edifice of Poetic Structures
Poetry: its Forms and Traditions
The Ever-Haunted House: Art in Life and History
Proust’s Way – Life and Romance in a Search For Lost Time
Lo-lee-ta: The Exorcism of Vladimir Nabokov
Dreampool: The Immortality of Meaning
The Doctor is Sick: Dissecting Dostoevsky
Wait, This Is no Cigar – Allegory, Irony, and Metaphor
The Artist’s Eye and the Poetic Sensibility
A Critical Study of Tupac’s Changes
Subjectivity in Art and Literary Criticism
The Evolving Window: the Past Through Different Eyes
The Eukaryotic Idea: Memetic Ancestry
PHYSICS & BIOLOGY; ITS IMPACT ON PHILOSOPHY
Human Progress: A Brief History of History
A Moment’s Notice: Entropy and Eternity
Your Place in History: Probability and Chance
Regress: The Omnisphere and Universe as Mass
Birth and Rebirth: The Universe Recycles
The Element’s Surprise: The Private Life of Particles
The Structure of Living Systems
Individual and Individuation
ASSORTED;
How Something Comes From Nothing
Hypothetical Heroes & the Totem of Fear
Nostalgia and the Romance of Memory
Capital Punishment: the Death Penalty in Western Democracies
Feminism & Humanism, David Hume & Antigone
Subjectivity and Sensationalism in the Media
The Haunting of the Human Animal: Loss & Regret
The Prodigy Problem: How to Sacrifice a Child for their Own Good
Philosophers and Other Miserable Idiots
Remorse & Why Psychopaths are the Future
Tragedy: why Tim the Gerbil’s Death is in God’s Plan
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ART AND LITERATURE
Historical Fiction & Cultural Identity
Sherlock Holmes and Telling the Truth Through Fiction
Shakespeare: Choice & Fate, Fathers & Sons
Why Art Matters – 10 May 2016
Real Fake Doors! & the Authenticity of Fiction
Religion, the Cult of Personality, and Liberation in Art (George Orwell and Eastern Philosophy)
The Conspiracy of History – Jacopo della Quercia and his Magic Pocket Watch
Hawthorne’s Letter to the Cult of Judgment (The Scarlet Letter & the Crucible)
Visually Speaking: An American Look at The Killing Fields (1984)
The Edifice of Poetic Structures
Poetry: its Forms and Traditions
The Ever-Haunted House: Art in Life and History
Proust’s Way – Life and Romance in a Search For Lost Time
Lo-lee-ta: The Exorcism of Vladimir Nabokov
Dreampool: The Immortality of Meaning
The Doctor is Sick: Dissecting Dostoevsky
Wait, This Is no Cigar – Allegory, Irony, and Metaphor
The Artist’s Eye and the Poetic Sensibility
A Critical Study of Tupac’s Changes
Subjectivity in Art and Literary Criticism
The Evolving Window: the Past Through Different Eyes
The Eukaryotic Idea: Memetic Ancestry
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