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“There can be daemons in a secular cosmos, Garviel. Just as long as we understand the use of the word.”– Warmaster Horus, Horus Rising One of the primary contributions of Bruno Latour’s scientifictional text Aramis, Or the Love of Technology, is the methodological conceit of allowing non-humans to ‘speak’. This method of generalized symmetry gives …
This talk explores death, undeath, and afterlife across the Imperium of Man, the galaxy’s civilizations, and the Warp. The Imperium’s citizens lack political enfranchisement; power is predicated on death and sacrifice, which serve as the civilization’s organizing principles. Undeath is a recurring theme in Warhammer, and special attention will be paid to the Necrons, the …
The presentation of religious and ethical concepts through public visual art has long been a means to communicate, form, and build identity in the public square—especially when literacy may be highly varied. This has often been conducted through the presentation of biblical and religious narratives as expressed through paintings, illustrated bibles, and stained glass.
Warhammer 40,000 was not built in a cultural vacuum. Games Workshop emerged in late-1970s Britain, a milieu shaped by occult revival, chaos magick aesthetics, and the Law/Chaos cosmology of Michael Moorcock’s fiction, and the fingerprints are everywhere: the Warp as a metaphysical plane mapping onto esoteric conceptions of the astral or the collective unconscious, the …
The Immaterium or Warp in Warhammer 40,000 functions as a chaotic, psychic realm that embodies both cosmic threat and metaphysical possibility. By looking at various external philosophical and religious sources, this paper seeks to approach 40k’s Immaterium as a liminal metaphysical space – and its internal lore applications of a collective unconscious realm shaped by …
The Warhammer 40k universe presents a unique and fascinating depiction of faster-than-light travel through the concept of the Warp, a parallel dimension of chaotic energy and psychic phenomena. This abstract explores the theoretical underpinnings of Warp space from the standpoint of modern physics, aiming to bridge the gap between fictional constructs and real scientific principles. …