Six Feet Under
What is life?
Narrative
Stories — true, invented, or somewhere in-between.
Babylon Berlin
"Charlotte approaches her investigations not only rationally, but with empathy and emotion."
Le Garage Hermétique
Call this sort of thing: narrative kintsugi — i.e., breaking, then making visible repairs to one's story.
Kosmos
"The semiosphere seductively lurks just out of our reach."
The Wonder
How to marshal myth, meaning, and embodied imagination…
Priestdaddy
"The mind’s eye and the reasoning faculty hovering dually at all times…"
The Giver
"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."
Lessons in Chemistry
"Cooking is not an exact science." Neither is semiotics.
Pattern Recognition
She has no way of knowing how she knows.
Music Box
"Each new clue twists and turns Talbot’s perspective… and ours too."
The Odyssey
To live in the wider world, you need to recognize that meaning is… "twisty."
Nice Work
She skilfully decodes everything she can see.
Babel-17
You must feel the research with instinct, intuition, and empathy.
Vurt
We journey to unfamiliar and sometimes quite strange conceptual spaces.