Tag: Michael Moorcock

  • Moorcock

    Moorcock’s multiverse is the first one that isn’t built like a strip mall of IP franchises. Before Marvel turned “infinite worlds” into an excuse to recycle plotlines forever, Moorcock treated parallel realities as a way to ask better questions. His multiverse isn’t rent-seeking; it’s curiosity-seeking. It doesn’t exist to justify more product—it exists to make…

  • The Eternal Champion

    The Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary The Eternal Champion, particularly Elric of Melniboné, revolves around three orders: Elric’s Lack and the Desire for the Other Lacan suggests that humans are forever driven by a sense of lack and the desire for the Other, a wholeness we can never achieve. Elric embodies the Lacanian concept…