"How can one conceive of an image regime (an 'iconomy,' as Szendy has it), that not only decenters the human but is truly autonomous?"
New in review, Kyle Sossamon on Peter Szendy's For an Ecology of Images, translated by Marco Roth: https://t.co/ktqvmMT1hZ
A solidus depicting Sol Invictus alongside Constantine the Great. Minted in 313 AD. BnF Museum, Paris.
τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν
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more worship the rising than the setting sun
Plutarch, Life of Pompey 16
"so she believe him and at once passed on the magic herbs; from her, he learned their uses, then joyfully withdrew to his own tent. "
#mythologymonday
🎨 "Jason and Medea" (1907) by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
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"Begin our singing with the Helikonian Muses,
Who possess Mt. Helikon, high and holy,
And near its violet-stained spring on petalsoft feet
Dance circling the altar of almighty Kronion."
-Theogony #MythologyMonday
🎨"The Muse at Sunrise" - Alphonse Osbert
"Heebie‐jeebies also implies a kind of premonition or haunting: the 'apprehension' that intuits an invasive presence. This dis‐ease itself claims the body."
From our Spring 2002 issue, read Brent Hayes Edwards's "Louis Armstrong and the Syntax of Scat": https://t.co/0BlyiF0RrK
Most important literary terms you should know before you study Post-Colonial Literary Theory & Criticism – a list of 50 terms
#Criticism#Academic#EnglishLiterature#Theory#Study
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The first in a series of commentaries on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology, beginning with the problem of philosophy’s proper genre, style, and structure.
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We hope everyone had a wonderful New Year - If your New Year's Resolution for 2026 was to submit to the Workshop for the Early Modern Period, you are in luck, as the deadline for our Lent Termcard is this Monday, 5 January!
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Life in Quotes
by English Literature Education
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
#Philosophy#Life#Meaning