Archive - Luke Burgis Newsletter

Innovation and Repetition

An essay by René Girard.

Published on Cluny Journal • 13 hrs ago

Behind the Scenes: On Style

An Anti-Mimetic Approach to Audience Capture—Defying Expectation

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Becoming a Vampire

The nature of transformative experience.

May 19 •

May 6 •

April 2025

A goodbye to Pope Francis

Apr 22 •

Basic Instincts

The gift of supernatural clarity in a world of distorted desire

Apr 13 •

Live Trialogue: "I Came to Cast Fire"

A conversation with Fr. Elias Carr and Michael Matheson Miller on René Girard

Apr 5 •

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Michael Matheson Miller

55:35

March 2025

February 2025

Trialogue #2 - Fantasy, Technology and the Future of Belief

Ross Douthat, Luke Burgis, and Jordan Castro discuss questions at the intersection of religion, technology, and the arts.

Published on Cluny Journal • Feb 26

Common Sense, Synesthesia, and the Soul

My introduction to a new edition of Eric McLuhan's book

Feb 20 •

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