Existentialism

How modern video games and speculative fiction help a post-religious generation trade the fear of an angry creator for the terror of an indifferent cosmos.

Begin with something small. A room at night, the lights off, the house quiet. Nothing is happening. You are aware of the hum of the refrigerator two rooms away, the particular grain of darkness…

There is a Buddhist temple in Isumi, in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, that is roughly four and a half centuries old. It has weathered shoguns and famines, the opening of the country to the West, the…