the plains, still, redivivus myth

About Me

‘A cat at pranks’: Christopher Smart’s Protectorate

Langston Hughes’ Bebop and Postwar Harlem

Hysteria in the Late Nineteenth-Century

Vyry’s Song: Remembering as an Uncontested Place

Exercising Memory as Narrative Technique in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Kevin as a Postmodern Literary Captive in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Disentangling “Mammy”: Negating Identity in Kindred, Dessa Rose, and Family

Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

Expressions of African American Feminisms in Jazz

Folk Aesthetics and the Spirituals in Southern Road

When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice  (Notes and rough drafts)

Labors of Freedom: God and Overcoming Violence-Societies (Rough draft)

Provoking God: Sacred Hope, Social Justice, and the Hebrew Bible


Other posts

Internet Archive: Upon the Written Hour

Internet Archive: By the Journey of Sands

Internet Archive: Carnival Rations and Other Poems

Internet Archive: In The Winds Of The August Maladroit Parvenu

Internet Archive: Book 5 – Poems Postponed

Internet Archive: The Sounds Of Dreams And Your Senseless Soft Touch

Internet Archive: Elephant Snow

Internet Archive: Essays and Memos on My Fundamental Misunderstanding of Ontology

Internet Archive: Digging Up Tired Roots

Internet Archive: A Gathering Of Works, Vol. I

Internet Archive: A Few Notes on Star Trek

Internet Archive: seaside, febrile grapes

tilley.solar

tilley.earth

scifi.global

Towards Post-Violence Societies: An Outline of Interdisciplinary Violence Studies and Violence Research

Some previous top popular poems

Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” Parts I-III

crescents like a waking diamond’s remorseful resilience

The cost of teaching

Whatever you are wearing is your uniform / The test we are under, the remnants of the subconscious signature, and self-defense

A Return to Attraction to Light and the End of the Public Intellectual

The test we are under, the remnants of the subconscious signature, and self-defense

not the chariot, or the escaping fire of our port

Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World

Trauma and Postmodern Subtext in Star Trek

the congruent mercies of gravel ponds

But the burdened air paperwork maderisation

A constellation of the retired house you’re in

A Poem Recited by God as Best as I Could Understand Her

Reposting: Theory of Monetized Empathy

When God Cries Tears of Grass

Faulted King

Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism

Bird Constructions

Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today

Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts

Theology at redivivus.earth

tomorrow E’rth’s patience for pearl-like songs

Cut the parachute off the moon

Between the páramo and cold Georgia nights

Gaius Baltar Escaping Freedom on Tau Cygna V

Those sundry amber lakes

Hannah Arendt Sought to Maintain Power-Shareholders

The First Steps to Reaching a SciFi-Like Utopia From Where the Western World is Right Now

Solarpunk and the Vestiges of the Ascetic

New Lies of Patrimony Gloves

Patronage Winds

Narrative Obtrusion and Difference in the Deep Space Nine episode “In the Pale Moonlight” and Enterprise’s “Damage”

Pluripotent Abstractions On a Cliff Down the River from a Rented Gold Mine

Expressions of African American Feminisms in Jazz

Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice  (Notes and rough drafts)

The United Traits of Bajoran and Cardassian Resistance

Lucie Horsch Sits Too Silent Among the Maple Pears

Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution

On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism

Anti-Utopian Leadership

Capitalism and Violence-Customs

Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning” – Dr. Federico Savini

The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”

The Orville’s “Mad Idolatry” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “Sacred Ground” as a Lesson in Explanatory Ethics

Without Homes and Dressings

Extreme Risk” and “Invasive Procedures” as Symbols of Capitalist Internalization

In the County Villages of 1960s Seismology

Volunteers of East Redbrook

Avery Brooks and His Understanding of Sisko

Depersonalization and Violence in The Next Generation episode, “Violations,” and the Voyager episode, “Remember”

Erasure of Solitary Meals and Gas Pipes

The Falsehood of Author as Authority

The Ontology of a Hummingbird

Star Trek, Ecology, and Green SciFi

A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations

From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism

Soul in Orbital Decay

milkweed without marble (the first violin)

Lesia Kulchynska: The Lure of War video essay

Monetized Empathy and the Conditioning of Violence-Capitalism

Denominationalisms

A Conversation With a Musician and a Forest

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