King Tut, the Duchess of Malfi and PoMo's decline

Oct 16, 2011 11:16

Monday last, went off to the see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Melbourne Museum (go after lunch on any weekday and the session is not likely to be booked out). I greatly enjoyed it. I did not bother with the audio tape, as I like to form my own impressions. One can certainly see that Egypt influenced Greek sculpture, for example ( Read more... )

exhibitions, academe, history, life, talks, pomo

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Dutch graduate student is a Belgian. charlesnaismith October 16 2011, 06:22:11 UTC
He is my tutor for Imperial Roman history:)

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Re: Dutch graduate student is a Belgian. erudito October 17 2011, 09:28:28 UTC
Ta, fixed :)

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jordan179 October 16 2011, 06:28:50 UTC
I'm glad to see the derision at postmodernism making its way into the liberal arts. They've sucked up to this absurd philosophy for far too long.

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findalexh October 16 2011, 06:34:34 UTC
Agreed.

Best quote regarding pomo - "Best thing you can do with a postmodernist is deconstruct him and leave him that way."

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