the symbols of "free mythopoesis" "are petrified into 'facts'" by "historization." and the "problem is still with us today in the debates on biblicism and demythicization, as well as in the discussions on the 'historicity' of Christ."
would be good to incl KJ on Bultmann here. and Ricoeur too!
would be good to incl KJ on Bultmann here. and Ricoeur too!
October 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
the symbols of "free mythopoesis" "are petrified into 'facts'" by "historization." and the "problem is still with us today in the debates on biblicism and demythicization, as well as in the discussions on the 'historicity' of Christ."
would be good to incl KJ on Bultmann here. and Ricoeur too!
would be good to incl KJ on Bultmann here. and Ricoeur too!
”Antik insan dünyayı mitlerle açıklıyordu. Bugün biz dünyayı neyle açıklıyoruz? Çok açık ki bir kişisel ve kolektif mit eksiğimiz var. Kişisel mitlerimiz eksikken bilim, algoritmalar, yapay zekâ, medya ve kapitalizm kendi mitlerini üretiyor olabilir mi?“ —Can Aksan’dan: manifold.press/mythopoesis
Mythopoesis
« Antik insan dünyayı mitlerle açıklıyordu. Bugün biz dünyayı neyle açıklıyoruz? Çok açık ki bir kişisel ve kolektif mit eksiğimiz var. […] Kişisel mitlerimiz eksikken diğer bir yandan bilim, algoritmalar, yapay zekâ, medya ve kapitalizm kendi mitlerini üretiyor olabilir mi? »
manifold.press
October 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
”Antik insan dünyayı mitlerle açıklıyordu. Bugün biz dünyayı neyle açıklıyoruz? Çok açık ki bir kişisel ve kolektif mit eksiğimiz var. Kişisel mitlerimiz eksikken bilim, algoritmalar, yapay zekâ, medya ve kapitalizm kendi mitlerini üretiyor olabilir mi?“ —Can Aksan’dan: manifold.press/mythopoesis
Live studio session of one of the tracks from the latest album from poet Nisha Ramayya, @basspope.bsky.social and me.
youtu.be/GX8_4bjeEwQ?...
youtu.be/GX8_4bjeEwQ?...
Nisha Ramayya / John Garner / John Pope - ‘Mythopoesis’ (live studio session)
YouTube video by John Garner
youtu.be
October 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Live studio session of one of the tracks from the latest album from poet Nisha Ramayya, @basspope.bsky.social and me.
youtu.be/GX8_4bjeEwQ?...
youtu.be/GX8_4bjeEwQ?...
Now available from Human Organization: Mythemes and Mythopoesis for Transformers and Transformation by Bryce Macher
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization
September 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Now available from Human Organization: Mythemes and Mythopoesis for Transformers and Transformation by Bryce Macher
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization
Genesis now looks like it is a mishmash of Greek, Babylonian and Syriac mythopoesis that was put into Hebrew, along with the word plays and everything. Not unique.
youtu.be/ZZFYtlDegDw?...
youtu.be/ZZFYtlDegDw?...
Ancient Discovery CHANGES EVERYTHING About Adam and Eve
YouTube video by MythVision Podcast
youtu.be
April 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Genesis now looks like it is a mishmash of Greek, Babylonian and Syriac mythopoesis that was put into Hebrew, along with the word plays and everything. Not unique.
youtu.be/ZZFYtlDegDw?...
youtu.be/ZZFYtlDegDw?...
I've put all my I Have Too Many Drafts! posts into one long (really long) compilation post for your reading convenience!
Next week's topic is already being outlined, so stay tuned, and keep writing, friends! (Yes, that's my crazy, exhausted face.)
#writingadvice #WritingTips #drafts #mythopoesis
Next week's topic is already being outlined, so stay tuned, and keep writing, friends! (Yes, that's my crazy, exhausted face.)
#writingadvice #WritingTips #drafts #mythopoesis
I Have Too Many Drafts, The Compilation!
All the shop talk goodies on Discarding, Recycling, Refining, and Deconstructing writing in one post for your convenience.
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I've put all my I Have Too Many Drafts! posts into one long (really long) compilation post for your reading convenience!
Next week's topic is already being outlined, so stay tuned, and keep writing, friends! (Yes, that's my crazy, exhausted face.)
#writingadvice #WritingTips #drafts #mythopoesis
Next week's topic is already being outlined, so stay tuned, and keep writing, friends! (Yes, that's my crazy, exhausted face.)
#writingadvice #WritingTips #drafts #mythopoesis
Hot off the press! This one has a lot of brainfood, so I’ll be revisiting some of these topics in more detail.
In the meantime, enjoy your bi-weekly dish of inspiration—this time we’re deconstructing inspiration itself!
#WritingAdvice #SelfEditing #Rewriting #Inspiration #Originality #Mythopoesis
In the meantime, enjoy your bi-weekly dish of inspiration—this time we’re deconstructing inspiration itself!
#WritingAdvice #SelfEditing #Rewriting #Inspiration #Originality #Mythopoesis
I Have Too Many Drafts! Part 4.
The Minutiae Of Channeling Inspiration
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hot off the press! This one has a lot of brainfood, so I’ll be revisiting some of these topics in more detail.
In the meantime, enjoy your bi-weekly dish of inspiration—this time we’re deconstructing inspiration itself!
#WritingAdvice #SelfEditing #Rewriting #Inspiration #Originality #Mythopoesis
In the meantime, enjoy your bi-weekly dish of inspiration—this time we’re deconstructing inspiration itself!
#WritingAdvice #SelfEditing #Rewriting #Inspiration #Originality #Mythopoesis
me, very drunk, at a party: i would say i excavate the mythopoesis of the sandwich
July 20, 2024 at 2:52 AM
me, very drunk, at a party: i would say i excavate the mythopoesis of the sandwich
Anna’s researches Tolkien’s medieval influences, alliterative poetry, and mythopoesis. She has presented at international conferences and is regularly in journals like Tolkien Studies, Mythlore, and the Journal of Tolkien Research. Her recent work explores Tolkien’s “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.”
December 20, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Anna’s researches Tolkien’s medieval influences, alliterative poetry, and mythopoesis. She has presented at international conferences and is regularly in journals like Tolkien Studies, Mythlore, and the Journal of Tolkien Research. Her recent work explores Tolkien’s “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.”
Yes!! We're going to need some powerful mythopoesis to get us through.
February 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Yes!! We're going to need some powerful mythopoesis to get us through.
Here, we recontextualize Barbie and Bionicle not as juvenile consumer totems, but as semiotic architectures.
Barbie: the elastic signifier of fem(me) aesthetics under capitalism.
Bionicle: techno-mythopoesis rendered in modular prosthetics. /
Barbie: the elastic signifier of fem(me) aesthetics under capitalism.
Bionicle: techno-mythopoesis rendered in modular prosthetics. /
July 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Here, we recontextualize Barbie and Bionicle not as juvenile consumer totems, but as semiotic architectures.
Barbie: the elastic signifier of fem(me) aesthetics under capitalism.
Bionicle: techno-mythopoesis rendered in modular prosthetics. /
Barbie: the elastic signifier of fem(me) aesthetics under capitalism.
Bionicle: techno-mythopoesis rendered in modular prosthetics. /
more and more I appreciate the older school elder scrolls approach to narrative branching: "they're all true, have several paragraphs of mythopoesis, fuck you"
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
more and more I appreciate the older school elder scrolls approach to narrative branching: "they're all true, have several paragraphs of mythopoesis, fuck you"
That's mythopoesis
July 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
That's mythopoesis
think we talk about mythopoesis a lot with regard to literature and film
but there’s a sense in which our life stories — especially the narratives which give meaning to them — have a deeply mythopoetic aspect
our unconscious perhaps playing the role fate played for ancient civilizations
but there’s a sense in which our life stories — especially the narratives which give meaning to them — have a deeply mythopoetic aspect
our unconscious perhaps playing the role fate played for ancient civilizations
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
think we talk about mythopoesis a lot with regard to literature and film
but there’s a sense in which our life stories — especially the narratives which give meaning to them — have a deeply mythopoetic aspect
our unconscious perhaps playing the role fate played for ancient civilizations
but there’s a sense in which our life stories — especially the narratives which give meaning to them — have a deeply mythopoetic aspect
our unconscious perhaps playing the role fate played for ancient civilizations
I think the best way to think about SF is 'mythopoesis for technocrats' and for (post)industrial society more broadly. It is serving the same needs as folk mythology for a broad swath of people.
October 1, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I think the best way to think about SF is 'mythopoesis for technocrats' and for (post)industrial society more broadly. It is serving the same needs as folk mythology for a broad swath of people.
Mythopoesis: now that the world is interconnected a single consensus a worldview will prevail. What is greater than any nation? Imagination. Hard work and natural ease help us act outside of our conceptual frameworks
"Find the challenge and say 'we got this' "
"Find the challenge and say 'we got this' "
April 12, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Mythopoesis: now that the world is interconnected a single consensus a worldview will prevail. What is greater than any nation? Imagination. Hard work and natural ease help us act outside of our conceptual frameworks
"Find the challenge and say 'we got this' "
"Find the challenge and say 'we got this' "
jeff, ross, and melvin take turns in the barber's chair, exploring the mythopoesis of #doctorwho in inua ellams's "the story and the engine." it's the newest ep of @gallifreysmwpod.bsky.social! please listen and share!
libsyn: shorturl.at/8zupr
spotify: shorturl.at/RpSDv
🍎: shorturl.at/yiMi1
libsyn: shorturl.at/8zupr
spotify: shorturl.at/RpSDv
🍎: shorturl.at/yiMi1
May 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
jeff, ross, and melvin take turns in the barber's chair, exploring the mythopoesis of #doctorwho in inua ellams's "the story and the engine." it's the newest ep of @gallifreysmwpod.bsky.social! please listen and share!
libsyn: shorturl.at/8zupr
spotify: shorturl.at/RpSDv
🍎: shorturl.at/yiMi1
libsyn: shorturl.at/8zupr
spotify: shorturl.at/RpSDv
🍎: shorturl.at/yiMi1
an invisible submarine named Mythopoesis
March 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
an invisible submarine named Mythopoesis
The path opens. Light breaks. A voice you almost forgot returns, not behind, but ahead.
'the light found my face
echo called through trembling leaves
this time, I followed'
🪔 Part 7 of Return as Light
🌕 thank you for walking with me
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
'the light found my face
echo called through trembling leaves
this time, I followed'
🪔 Part 7 of Return as Light
🌕 thank you for walking with me
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
July 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The path opens. Light breaks. A voice you almost forgot returns, not behind, but ahead.
'the light found my face
echo called through trembling leaves
this time, I followed'
🪔 Part 7 of Return as Light
🌕 thank you for walking with me
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
'the light found my face
echo called through trembling leaves
this time, I followed'
🪔 Part 7 of Return as Light
🌕 thank you for walking with me
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
You reach a glade where memory pools. Your name is too heavy to speak, so you offer it to the roots.
"I laid down a name
and the roots cradled it whole
softer than my voice'
Part 6 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
"I laid down a name
and the roots cradled it whole
softer than my voice'
Part 6 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
July 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You reach a glade where memory pools. Your name is too heavy to speak, so you offer it to the roots.
"I laid down a name
and the roots cradled it whole
softer than my voice'
Part 6 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
"I laid down a name
and the roots cradled it whole
softer than my voice'
Part 6 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
The stillness beneath the canopy grows thick. You’re no longer alone. But whatever follows never passes you.
"the hush deepens now
something follows without sound
but never ahead"
Part 5 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
"the hush deepens now
something follows without sound
but never ahead"
Part 5 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
July 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The stillness beneath the canopy grows thick. You’re no longer alone. But whatever follows never passes you.
"the hush deepens now
something follows without sound
but never ahead"
Part 5 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
"the hush deepens now
something follows without sound
but never ahead"
Part 5 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
July 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The glow clings to the rocks along a dim forest path,
lit by bioluminescent moss.
'the path hums softly
stones remember who I was
before I forgot'
🪔 Part 4 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
thank you for walking with me 🌿
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
lit by bioluminescent moss.
'the path hums softly
stones remember who I was
before I forgot'
🪔 Part 4 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
thank you for walking with me 🌿
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
July 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The glow clings to the rocks along a dim forest path,
lit by bioluminescent moss.
'the path hums softly
stones remember who I was
before I forgot'
🪔 Part 4 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
thank you for walking with me 🌿
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
lit by bioluminescent moss.
'the path hums softly
stones remember who I was
before I forgot'
🪔 Part 4 of Return as Light
a story told in 7 quiet haiku
thank you for walking with me 🌿
#LILI #haiku #micropoetry #dreamlogic #mythopoesis
'Offerings'
moss accepts your grief
you fold it into the roots
ghostlight starts to hum
#LILI #俳句 #micropoetry #haiku #writing
#poetry #mythopoesis #dreamlogic #portalpoetry
🪔 Part 3 of Return as Light
a 7-part story told in haiku form
(more tomorrow — thank you for traveling with me)
moss accepts your grief
you fold it into the roots
ghostlight starts to hum
#LILI #俳句 #micropoetry #haiku #writing
#poetry #mythopoesis #dreamlogic #portalpoetry
🪔 Part 3 of Return as Light
a 7-part story told in haiku form
(more tomorrow — thank you for traveling with me)
July 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
'Offerings'
moss accepts your grief
you fold it into the roots
ghostlight starts to hum
#LILI #俳句 #micropoetry #haiku #writing
#poetry #mythopoesis #dreamlogic #portalpoetry
🪔 Part 3 of Return as Light
a 7-part story told in haiku form
(more tomorrow — thank you for traveling with me)
moss accepts your grief
you fold it into the roots
ghostlight starts to hum
#LILI #俳句 #micropoetry #haiku #writing
#poetry #mythopoesis #dreamlogic #portalpoetry
🪔 Part 3 of Return as Light
a 7-part story told in haiku form
(more tomorrow — thank you for traveling with me)