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Sitting with the Na’Vi

In response to my last post about the film Avatar, someone commented that the film reminded him of the feeling of community with others and with all life that he had growing up in the country. Recently, I realized that it is just this sense of communing with life that comes rushing back vividly whenContinue reading “Sitting with the Na’Vi”

It has always intrigued me that the computer world applies words traditionally meant to point towards sacred realities– “icon” and “avatar”–in weird but apt ways. An icon, for example, is a small image that can be clicked on to become a gateway to a much larger reality–a two-dimensional technological version of the way an ByzantineContinue reading “Avatar”