Medieval Robots

I've explored the reason why it matters that we so often equate the medieval past with squalor and filth. So I was delighted when a fri...

  "Get Out," Jordan Peele's racial horror film, uses medievalism as brilliantly as it uses milk and Fruit Loops to inform th...

"Time is, time was, time is past," quoth the Brazen Head. I recently had occasion to discuss medieval legends of oracular head...

"Medieval is the new modern" is the tagline of this blog. I came up with it five years ago as a shorthand to signify both that man...

Greetings, humans. Lots of medieval/robot news to share. While the NYT reports that the Pentagon is confronting the reality of autonomous...

Netflix has just announced that it will produce another dozen episodes of "Black Mirror," hallelujah. The brilliant series inte...

St. Thomas Aquinas, in Summa contra Gentiles , compared animals to machines--lacking reason, animals behave in a prescribed sequence of acti...