For me, this particular re-telling of her Troy is one of the most beautiful things I have ever come across. No fancy lights, video, graphics, no orchestra; just raw passion and emotion right to the end. Can love exist without hate?
For other re-tellings with lights, graphics and videos etc click the links below. Note the stage lighting in the 2nd version evoking images of her rising from the flames.
This version is visually and vocally softer. What deos she mean when she invites men to send in their applications? Is she daring you?
Is this the original? Where/when does her story begin?
Perhaps Sian et al would like to pilot this programme. I for one would be quite up for a being a guinea pig, not liking those pesky words so much. I can just see us errecting (and then perhaps deconstructing) a big Maypole .
Oooh, i feel a bit of a barndance coming on...
Crossposted from Infinite Thought blog. (Links other than the first posted by me-Clare) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I like Jarvis Cocker's plan to incorporate lectures into his gigs.
Oxbridge lecturers will doubtless be watching these gigs carefully, waiting to see if the lecture-disco format takes off.
Well, I may not be an Oxbridge lecturer, but I could probably do with more music in my classes. When teaching Adorno I once played some selections from Swing Tanzen Verboten!, a collection of Nazi swing music from WWII. Fearing the mystical transformative properties of the tunes, one of my students asked me if he could hold me personally responsible if he became a fascist. But of course, dear boy.
Of late I have been trying to think which areas of philosophy I really, definitely don't want to teach, so that when asked I can resolutely say 'no, not my area!'. So far I have determined two: logic/calculus and ethics. I really, really hate teaching ethics. Kant's categorical imperative, fine, but talking about ickle bitty foetuses with undergraduates - horrible. If ethics means anything it's only as a branch of politics. A very tiny branch, too fragile to hold even the smallest of birds. Perhaps, in retrospect, I wasn't the best person to be appointed to the Ethics committee...but who else was going to approve the participant observation burlesque project!
How much time (on average) do you spend with an internet-connected computer per day?
Welcome to all the students of the Myth and Mythmaking course. We will post here thoughts, comments, suggestions, links and all sorts of materials relevant to the course. If you want to became an author, just create a Blogger account (any GoogleMail account will work), preferably with your real name as a default name and email the details to either Fabio or James. In addition to the assignment requirements, this will be your free space to post anything you want (as long as it is at least tangentially related to the main themes of the course) or ask questions and open discussions. Enjoy!
