Liber Secundus:
On the Ritual Apparatus

How the Temple Became a Soundstage

Complete audio essay · 57:00 · Synthetic narration

Chapters

1. 00:00 — Opening and series introduction
2. 00:44 — At the multiplex
3. 03:16 — What ritual does
4. 07:37 — The church and its successors
5. 10:31 — Hollywood as temple
6. 14:49 — The manufactured star
7. 20:35 — Music and collective feeling
8. 28:38 — Predictive programming
9. 32:15 — The news cycle
10. 35:59 — Spectator sport
11. 38:22 — Pornography and the apparatus
12. 43:25 — The principle of inversion
13. 48:34 — Replacing the practice
14. 53:28 — The next essay
15. 54:40 — Grief and the missing community
16. 56:35 — Credits and next essay