Haitian Vodou is a deeply layered spiritual system that is not only a living religious tradition, but also a vehicle of cultural memory, communal governance, and political resistance.

Whether it’s a shaman in the jungle, a livestreamed binding spell against a president, or a 17-year-old with a phone and a sense of the sacred, the grammar of revolt is changing—but its roots remain old, and deep, and smoldering.

Though the novel is often read through a Victorian Protestant lens—with Van Helsing as a mouthpiece for Enlightenment rationality and Catholic superstition—its treatment of Catholic sacramentality is far more ambivalent.

In the age of large language models, where synthetic text flows with eerie coherence and casual eloquence, the line between authored and generated has blurred beyond easy recognition...

The codex as a context for political, theological, epistemological, and ontological conflict. The article traces historical and fictional instances where books were feared, forbidden, or weaponized, and asks what this says about the relationship between knowledge and power.