tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930082701296988435.post1893490795843242067..comments2023-10-09T08:27:00.711-07:00Comments on Archaeopop: The Past in Popular Culture: 1668: The Parthenon as Monster ManualUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930082701296988435.post-36954397851783885212010-04-07T13:03:49.462-07:002010-04-07T13:03:49.462-07:00As someone with a fierce affection for personal re...As someone with a fierce affection for personal re-interpretations/fan versions of just about anything, I love the idea of the explain-it-yourself Parthenon (or whatevs). But as someone who always wants to know the answers at the back of the math book, I can't stand the idea of not doing the historical research (while recognizing the idea that, no matter how objective it sets out to be, historical research is just as much of a story as any other).<br /><br />What I mean is: I love me some bonkers Marco Polo stories about eagles and meat producing diamonds, but I also want to know the (admittedly much more boring but also important) actual facts about diamond production. How do you square a desire to know The Answer, by some kind of scientific process, with the desire to keep things open and undetermined enough to allow people to tell their own stories?Hannah Maehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500128603143687456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930082701296988435.post-43451665631104652742010-03-29T22:35:51.676-07:002010-03-29T22:35:51.676-07:00I am not so sure the school of bestowed meaning-ol...I am not so sure the school of bestowed meaning-ology is quite dead. <br /><br />Ever listen to Coast to Coast with George Noory or the 700 Club with Pat-by-God-Robertson? Ancient iconography has been waiting millennia for us to develop the sophistication to impose technofied Judeo-Christian-New Age interpretations on them.<br /><br />I still reminisce about an adolescence spent trembling over the atom bombs and supercomputers as foretold in the Book of Revelations, and the cognitive dissonance I felt when I learned that what the Book of Revelations was really talking about was gun control and universal healthcare.Keith Payne/Shemsu Sesenhttp://emhotep.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4930082701296988435.post-34028709912654420292010-03-22T22:19:12.904-07:002010-03-22T22:19:12.904-07:00Can someone write a monster manual for these sites...Can someone write a monster manual for these sites? Totally fantastical? Would be so fun.... Post-Post-Doc, ok, Dan?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578101882608422826noreply@blogger.com