Christopher Michael Luna is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work links the humanities with questions of culture, technology and public life. This site is an independent informational profile based on a personal website preserved in a web archive. It is not operated by him, and it makes no claims beyond what the archived pages said.
What his work is about
According to the archive, a single question guides his research: how is culture produced, shaped and spread through material production, and how does that production affect human behaviour? To explore it, he studied the history and philosophy of science, aesthetic philosophy, the history of Christianity and Buddhism, and the development of modernity.
His academic path ran through Hampshire College, Harvard Divinity School and Duke University, and the archived pages describe a doctoral dissertation in progress on Silicon Valley culture, with the working title Uncanny Valley.
Two themes on this site
- Scholarship. A summary of his argument that the humanities are practical disciplines, with an overview of his degrees and the projects behind each.
- Buddhism. A look at the role of Buddhist thought and practice in his outlook, his interest in Buddhist cosmology, the teachers he credits and a reading and viewing list.
The original website also carried headings for leadership, design, teaching, writing and art, though those pages held little text in the archive.
Essays added here
To give context for these themes, we have added a few general explainers that are not statements by him:
Readers interested in the ideas behind the profile can start with whichever essay suits their curiosity.