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298 - Mary Harrington - Conspiracies and the Return of Myth

The Symbolic World

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The Transition From Print to Digital Culture

I find fascinating how radically and how quickly it's become normal again to speak in mythic terms, since we transition from print to a digital culture. So given this, the fact that that's eminating, at the sort of mythic level, as lizard people who walk amongst us, doesn't feel so strange really. When we say commonplace, we mean it in a dismisses sense, right? But a commonplace in medieval terms was something that you took quite seriously. And one of the things I found incredibly interesting, and just has been preoccupying me ever since, is the transition from the pre-modern to the modern moment.

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