The Underneath

Our AI Moment, Unknown Unknowns and Unknown Knowns

I can't stop thinking about AI, the fast-coming disruptions, and our unwillingness to gain perspective in our next axial revolution

Dec 30, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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November 2025

Live Classes on Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Prepare for the Christmas season by doing a deep dive into the perennial classic

Nov 18, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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Advent Comes Before Christmas

But Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a need preparation

Nov 18, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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September 2025

The Ritual of Thomas’ Discontent

Our cultural sense-makers are "AirSpacers" who prefer frictionless no-places to gritty, sticky, icky some-places

Sep 23, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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"Let's Go to Hell": a Six-part live course on Dante's Inferno

Geared toward "returning readers" we will do the paradigmatic deep dive.

Sep 3, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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August 2025

The Dark Enchantments of Grok Imagine

The Mirror of Erised and other cloaks of invisibility

Aug 15, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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July 2025

Back to Teddy Hall

In Oxford with my students

Jul 29, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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Manufactured Narratives

The "occasion" for Traditiones and the possible uncovering of a Public Relations stunt. Facts are stubborn things.

Jul 9, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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On Being Literate

Auden's impossibly magnificent syllabus, Frankenstein's creature's induction through literature, and the humans we are fashioning without the story of…

Jul 5, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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The Culture Wars are Real

Jenn on Jenn violence at the University of Tulsa exposes the rot of an ideologically motivated culture warring.

Jul 1, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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June 2025

The Haunting of Logres

We are haunted by the unseen, but there are times that are "thin" and the darker spirits reveal themselves, often in the cover of liberation, bent on…

Jun 26, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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Brother to Father

An ordination, a thunder clap and two gifts to our parents: a stole and the maniturgium

Jun 24, 2025 • Kale Zelden

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