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 changing conditions and concerns of the culture. Myths that do not evolve are no longer useful and often fade away. A living […]
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.
Lots of interesting talks on everything from traditional superheroes such as Superman and Batman to readings of Queer as Folk. […]
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 Derrida’s notion of ghosts from an this essay on the cultural history of the highway:
Jacques Derrida has suggested that ghosts come to talk with […]
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 Aristotle’s narrative arc - the male heroic narrative - no longer adequately describes our experience of this world. It’s […]
