Bingeing Brideshead: The Gift of Spontaneous Ritual
Eden O’Brien describes how watching Brideshead Revisited taught her that bingeing “opens up a new mode of experience” that is “primed for ritual and depth”…
Since encountering literature through the critical lens of Plato’s aesthetics, Eden has been interested in studying how the arts reconcile the inherent unreality of imitation with artistic truth. By contextualizing popular artistic expressions within more traditional systems of thought, she hopes to explore art's significance for everyday formation. Eden is especially interested in the interplay between art and imitation with reference to Tolkien’s poetics, Aestheticism, and camp.
Eden O’Brien describes how watching Brideshead Revisited taught her that bingeing “opens up a new mode of experience” that is “primed for ritual and depth”…
Editor’s Note: As the TheoArtistry: Text & Image exhibition ends, so does our series on this project. Eden O’Brien, a collaborator in the group whose…
[As part of our ‘Christian Doctrine and the Arts’ series, Eden O’Brien investigates the disembodied experiences that can result from our engagement with technology…