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[podcast]E.118
The Story of Elden Ring
So what the f*ck is going on in Elden Ring? Join Mike & Alex for an explanation of the history & events of the game. We describe characters, entities & the metaphysical themes present here that have reoccurred in all of Miyazaki’s games.
The primary theme: potency is intrinsically relative to act, part to whole, two and three fingers to a hand, life to death. Miyazaki has contrived another myth concerning the interpenetration of one & many, same & different within a primordial state of reality. Once again he depicts the degeneration of the cosmos as resulting from a finite agent’s attempt to universalize its own essence & subject perspective (to the exclusion of ontological difference, polyvalence).
Read more about the philosophic themes of Elden Ring here.
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