Douglas Rushkoff – We Don’t Need Another Hero
Douglas Rushkoff has an interesting reflection about the hero myth on his his weblog where he is talking about a pannel he was recently on: Where seemed to connect most was in our shared sense that...
View ArticleMemories reminders ghosts and myths
I have been reading some stuff on “community of memory” (Paige Baty on Marylin and Barbie Zelizer on Kennedy) and then recently came across these two quotes from quite different sources. Firstly...
View ArticleSuperheroes
I have just finished up at the Just Men In Tights: Superheroes Conference. It’s been a very stimulating weekend and just what I needed to get my head back into myth, popular culture and the apocalypse....
View ArticleMyth and possible stories
Great quote from a William Doty essay: Myths die when they are no longer retold and revised. Mackey-Kallis proposes that myths “must change in culturally specific fashions if they are to speak to the...
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