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Mental health has been named as one of the largest challenges worldwide. One-eighth of the world’s population are affected by a mental illness alerting health services around the globe to search for way to tackle a rising problem. Most mental health services are overworked and can’t cope with the increased demand. Therefore, the world-health organization …
Since 2010, youth services in England have sustained real-terms funding cuts of approximately 73%, with more than 760 youth centres and 4,500 youth work posts lost (YMCA, 2023). This paper asks what fills the gap and proposes that Games Workshop’s Warhammer stores represent one largely unexamined answer. Games Workshop has actively entered youth development space …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …