http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/2010/08/mythic-visions-redux-looking-to-the-heavens-with-a-tragic-optic/ ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS, PUBLIC CULTURE, AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/2010/08/mythic-visions-redux-looking-to-the-heavens-with-a-tragic-optic/#comment-1517 Michael Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:25:14 +0000 http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/?p=6224#comment-1517 Yes, true enough, we haven’t outgrown the gods, but we have misimagined ourselves — as the blind poet Nixon might have said — into technological illusion. The photo ‘Afghan night, stars’ is easy enough to read as the Argives camped on the beach near Troy, and the photo ‘Afghan patrol, Gurkhas’ as a moment in a war of many years. From time to time, at key moments, this goddess or that moves among the the kings/generals, shadowing their minds.

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