Tag: imagination

• Life after the bedtime story

  I’m not sure when I was first introduced to myths -Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces in university to be sure- but I think it was when I was much younger that I became fascinated with the idea of stories which, although often fanciful, tried to explain the meaning and significance of the […]

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  July 20, 2022

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  fairy tales, Feminist thinking, Greek and Roman myths, Homer, imagination, Jess Zimmerman, Joseph Campbell, Lamia, Medusa, metaphors, myths, Nora McGreevy, Odysseus, Oedipus, Scylla and Charybdis, Sphinx, Women and other monsters

• Fake lies?

  Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about truth, but not for the reasons you might expect. Not because of the abundance of ‘fake news’ about which we seem to be constantly reminded, and not necessarily because I’ve been occasionally embarrassed in a lie, nor because of the tangled web you wove when first you practiced […]

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  January 6, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Albert Camus, assertions, authorial authority, boundary markers, David Hume, deception, edges, Emar Maier, ethics, Fake news, fiction, George Orwell, H.P. Grice, imagination, imaginative resistance, lies, literary fiction, literature, Plato, reportage, Sir Philip Sidney, speech acts, the paradox of fiction, trespassing, Truth, University of Groningen

• Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown

  The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination.            […]

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  December 23, 2020

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  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aeon.co, art, biosemantics, cave art, Columbia College, counterfactuals, imagination, language, Mark Johnson, metaphor, poetry, Richard III, Shakespeare, Stephen T Asma, task grammar, University of Oregon

• Truth hath a quiet breast

  What makes something ‘real’? For that matter, what does that even mean? Is a character in one of my favourite books any less real than what I remember of an uncle my family used to visit when I was a child? I used to wonder about that until I was old enough to be able […]

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  September 9, 2020

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  Aeon.co, atlas, Australia, Florida State University, imagination, Lebenswelt, maps, Nathanael Stein, philosophy, real, reality

• Sapere audi

  Sapere audi – ‘Dare to know’, as the Roman poet Horace wrote. It was later taken up by famous Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, and it seemed like a suitable rallying cry as I negotiated the years that led from youth to, well, Age. Who could argue that ignorance is preferable to knowledge? That understanding something, […]

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  April 8, 2020

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  Aeon.co, Daniel Callcut, habituation, Horace, imagination, Immanuel Kant, internet, knowledge, Laura Mulvey, morals, pornography, the unthinkables, virtue