Eudaimonia in a Mechanical Dark Age
All the days of November and December present great opportunities for pondering on gratitude, tolerance, and contentment; Thanksgiving Day, the...
Matthew Pungitore
Matthew Pungitore is the author of writings that have appeared in issues of Aegeon Science Fiction Illustrated (presently: Aegeon Issues 4, 5, and 6). He’s also self-published books you can purchase online (e.g., Amazon and BookBaby). If you’ve enjoyed any of Matthew Pungitore’s works, please leave a review on Amazon or even a blog.
To Hear in New and Old Symbols
To all adults interested in philosophy and/or magic, theistic or nontheistic, this article is for you. When you can’t tell...
Aesthetics and Good Taste: Dandyism in Tophet
In the USA, I look around, and every so often I can’t tell who’s homeless and who’s not. Today’s garments,...
Life, Art, and Transgression
A source of disgust and panic to many, to some a wellspring of deliverance and pleasure, transgressive fiction has oft...
Thoughts on Italo Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics: an Italian Phantasm
Being an Italian-American aesthete, and a nontheistic neo-pagan, I feel it critically, spiritually important to my Italian blood for me...