Kory James
Oppenheimer: Technological Determinism & The (Nuclear) Power of Symbols
The Urn of Invention: Imagine, if you will, a faded urn of substantial size containing within it marble spheres of varying color, each...
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Kory James
- Jul 13
- 1 min
Steady as a Stone Lyric Video
The lyric video for my latest single, Steady as a Stone, is now published and the song is available on all major music streaming...
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Kory James
- Jan 12
- 5 min
Amused to Death: How Entertainment Will Lead to our Downfall
“No Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As [Huxley] saw it, people will come to love their...
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Kory James
- Oct 13, 2022
- 4 min
Tolkien and the Long Defeat
Middle-Earth is a realm in perpetual decline. One beginning in benevolent magic and bliss yet succumbing over time to mundanity and shadow.
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Kory James
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
The Oneironin
This week I put the final touches on my short story, The Oneironin, based on an idea that’s yanked at my imagination for over two years...
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Kory James
- Aug 5, 2022
- 3 min
Lucid Dreaming: How Inception Gets It Wrong
Let me start out by saying I’m a sucker for any Christopher Nolan movie, Inception included. Nolan’s capacity to condense complex,...
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Kory James
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
Soldier Resurrected
A lesson I learned (or perhaps relearned) this week. Soldier Resurrected Burn me to ashes, so I can be reborn. I'm as dead as the past...
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Kory James
- Jul 22, 2022
- 3 min
Brave New World: Our Dystopia of Comfort
If asked what the most prophetic dystopian fiction classic of all time is, most would likely point to Orwell’s 1984 or Bradbury’s...
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Kory James
- Jun 2, 2022
- 4 min
Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Many-Worlds Interpretation and Existentialism vs. Nihilism
It’s been a while since a trip to the movie theatre left me like this. Eyes teared up, jaw sore from laughing, and wonder-induced...
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Kory James
- Apr 28, 2022
- 3 min
The Ring of Gyges: Should the Internet be Transparent?
It’s a hot topic, and temperature’s only rising: should the Internet stay true to its founding virtues of decentralized mass anonymity or...
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Kory James
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Thoughts on Current Events
As we march towards elevated nuclear tension, I begin to feel the tremors of paranoia sink in. Yet I also feel a deepened connection to...
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Kory James
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
What is Your Ithaca?
At its core, my song Ithaca (Going Home) is a love song to mythology for its influence on my life and countless others across millennia....
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Kory James
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min
ARIADNE Cyberpunk Lyric Video
LYRIC VIDEO FOR ARIADNE OUT NOW!! Ariadne is a rock reinterpretation of the ancient Greek labyrinth myth in which the hero Theseus is...
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Kory James
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
Atom and the Universe
Hey guys…guess what…I PUBLISHED A BOOK!! That’s right, my astronomy-themed sci-fi children’s book Atom and the Universe is available now...
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Kory James
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
The Infinite Library
How do we navigate this infinite library? There are so many choices to make, competing ideas to consider when making said choices, and...
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Kory James
- May 30, 2021
- 1 min
The Man on the Fence
The man on the fence is a coward, And with vitriol he must be showered, For to arrive hence as a man on a fence He must never have gave...
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Kory James
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
No Man's Land - A Short Poem
No Man's Land By: Kory James The battlefield rings with gunshots and vitriol As another white-flag waver falls through a pigeonhole. A...
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Kory James
- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min
A Better Bridge
“I refuse to buy into this tired narrative, that anyone who doesn’t run with me is a fool.” Wish I wrote this one – today I’m posting a...
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Kory James
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
The Divided States of America
The Divided States of America. An ironic and seemingly inevitable conclusion to our country. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The...
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Kory James
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
The Big One?
Regardless your take on the severity of this pandemic or the effectiveness of international efforts to halt it, it is not difficult to...
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