Finding a New Glorious Purpose: Loki and the Failure of Materialism
Materialism mesmerizes us, as it does Loki, because it’s a way to place ourselves at the center of our own little universe composed of people and products that exist to serve us.
Nathan Fayard is an assistant professor at Indiana Wesleyan University, where he specializes in medieval literature, the Inklings, and the fantastic. He loves heroic stories and tales of adventure, from Achilles to Aquaman. He became an academic because "swashbuckling adventurer" just doesn't seem like a viable career path these days. He is accompanied on his own mundane daily adventures by his wife, Jenn, and by their cats, Freya and Ransom.
