Recent Publications:

“Animal Liberation in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.’” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. November 3, 2023. https://tricycle.org/article/animal-liberation-guardians-of-the-galaxy/.

“Close Your Eyes, Breathe, and Stick It to the Man,” in Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy, edited by Josh Heter and Richard Greene, 245-253 (Illinois: Carus Books, 2022; Pop Culture and Philosophy Series, Volume #7).

“Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha, Canonical Authority, and Remix Theory in the Study of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 90, no. 2 (June 2022; online May 9, 2022). DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfac031.

“Versioning Buddhism: Remix and Recyclability in the Study of Religion,” in The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough, 95-108 (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Latest Posts:

Subversive Goblins and Wabi-Sabi Hobbits

Wabi-sabi, a concept in Japanese aesthetics revolving around the beauty of imperfection and impermanence, aligns well with both the goblincore aesthetic and subculture and some of J.R.R. Tolkien’s short, hairy creatures.

Close Your Eyes, Breathe, and Stick It to the Man

Buddhist philosophy and punk ideology probably don’t come across at first glance as complementary models for attaining a life without suffering. But they both advocate principles that demand the raising of one’s fists to put an end to an unsatisfying, oppressive, and cyclic existence in very similar ways.

Remix Theory and Buddhist Philosophy: A Primer

When production and output is understood as being dependent upon all else in causal-effective chains of interrelation and combinatorality, remix theory starts to sound quite a bit like…Buddhist philosophy.