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2025In personPanel 10Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

Grimdark Metaphysics: Is there an Ultimate Reality in WH40K?

Metaphysics is an analysis of fundamental principles or of the absolute. Such lines of questioning might be directed at any worldview, whether it concerns our own actual world or fictional worlds. In my talk I want to inquire into the absolute of the Warhammer 40K universe, as the different factions see it.In the first part …

2025In personPanel 10Saturday 27th September 2025Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

The Dead God, The Golden Throne, and A Hope Messianic: An Examination on the Organizing (Dead) Power of the Master Signifier and The Abandonment of Messiah 

This paper explores the figure of the Emperor of Man from Warhammer 40,000 as a Master Signifier, situating him within the psychoanalytic traditions of Freud and Lacan while drawing a sharp contrast with the messianic hope articulated in the ethical philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. In Freudian and Lacanian theory, the Father—whether as …

2024Panel 10Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

What happened to the Lost Primarchs? Or, a case of invitational incompleteness

Everyone who’s interested in 40K lore knows that the Emperor of Mankind gene-crafted 20 “sons” to be his superhuman generals in the Great Crusade to reunite humanity. Equally well known is that two of these Primarchs – the second and the eleventh – were “lost”: everything about them was intentionally deleted from Imperial records. But …

2024Panel 10Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

Are We the Baddies?: The Ethical Implications of the Imperium’s War with Chaos and the Inverted Meaning of Order

The Imperium of Man is often portrayed as the last bastion against the corrupting influenceof Chaos. Yet, the methods employed by the Imperium are as ruthless as the enemies theyseek to destroy. Governed by the decrees of the God-Emperor, the Imperium enforces abrutal order through fear, repression, and unyielding orthodoxy. It is a society where …