What is The Boy Bedlam Review?

Bedlam: riotous, chaotic -- a place of crazy people. Kind of like the world today.
Bedlam’s Boy: a Child of Chaos, a Strange Attractor.

The Boy Bedlam Review is a monthly publication of arts and ideas for the 21st Century. Our primary goal is to advocate for, and publish, works of human creativity and interpretation that positively serve the dialogue between religion/spirituality and technology/science. We approach the subject of our world’s hyperreal, hypermodern, hypersexual, and information-suffused state with a pre-eminent question: What is useful, and what is necessary, for us to be educated, wise, generous, and just HUMAN BEINGS in an era of late capitalism and high technology?

We are not a Literary Journal, nor are we a News Magazine – though we admit parts of both into our fold. We strive to present a POETICS OF INFORMATION for Our Era by associations of Ideas and leaps of Imagination. Each monthly issue is anchored by three articles, essays, or works of art whose subjects trace a common Theme. Trailing at the bottom of a featured piece, a list of Tangents links you to associated content on The Boy Bedlam Review and elsewhere. They are lines of twine in the Labyrinth, and strands of silk in the Web. Our auxiliary BedlamBlog is our community, our sounding-board, our warehouse of raw materials filled with junk that, in the hands of a creative Child of Bedlam, can BLOOM! into a toy – one that can help us play with the complex geometries of our nature.

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