275 - Michael Legaspi - Subjectivity and the Psalms
The Symbolic World
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The Psalms and the Buffered Self
The notion of the buffered self is manifesting itself in the world and accelerated. The consequences of it are more visible right if you think of avatar culture like this idea of people self creating themselves online through their personas that have become very strange. But I think what the Psalms point to when it comes to subjectivity is this idea that it's not infinitely plastic there is actually something there that that is God given which can only really be at rest and fulfilled when we come back into the community with God.
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