Democratic Vistas
George JensenA berserker's guide to American politics and culture.
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Nolan's Odyssey: Language and Dialogue
The text of the Odyssey in Ancient Greek
We are living in an age of spoiler alerts. As members of a modern audience, we don’t want to know what a novel, film, or television show is about before we experience it. We especially don’t want to...
The Real Trojan War
What would a fake Trojan War look like?
Some commentators have criticized Nolan’s film for getting Homer’s Odyssey wrong. Some of these criticisms concern minor details, like slapping the wrong kind of helmet on little Matt Damon’s head. I...
Frames for Nolan's The Odyssey
Odysseus Pluralized
I have been doing a deep dive into the media surrounding Christopher Nolan’s film adaption of Homer’s Odyssey. I suspect this is going to be my new rabbit hole, which is a nice way of saying that it is becoming my curre...
Carnival versus Totalitarianism
Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World, recently out in a new translation by Sergeiy Sandler, should be read as a book about ontology, a particular kind of ontology—the anti-totalitarian self. It is a book that Heidegger, who is considere...
Simulacra as a Mode of Reality
Photo by Tiago Martins on Unsplash
In my last post, I explained Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra and how it helps us to understand the negative effects of social media, especially on our democracy. In this post, I will explain somet...
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George Jensen is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has published articles and books on a wide range of topics, most recently on the ethics of nonfiction.
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