1. So I have some thoughts on Jordan Peterson, vintage clothing, George Eliot, Carl Jung, comparative mythology, fascism, the Indiana Jones movies, ancient astronauts & Jack Kirby's New Gods.
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8. As per Frye: we inherit myths & archetypes but we also remake them. Blake turned the Devil into a hero, feminists like Kristin J Sollee turned witches into heroines. In Frozen, the traditional Disney witch-character (Elsa) is most loved character.
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9. Myths aren't static & univocal (as Paterson treats them) but, like all cultural artifacts, contested, fluid & polyphonic. Frye showed this on a theoretical level, Jack Kirby through his art.
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10. Running through Kirby's work is a fascination with myths, not seen as simply inherited things but open to renovation: mythology fusing with science fiction in stories of Ancient Astronauts (taken as much from pulps as von Danikens pseudo-science)pic.twitter.com/hWpZXL2t6l
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11. It's the fusion of science fiction with mythology that saves Kirby from the musty, status-quo loving traditionalism of the older mythologists: the New God embody older archetypes but also, crucially, contemporary uncertainty & anxiety.
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12. I have more thoughts along this line here:https://newrepublic.com/article/148473/jordan-petersons-tired-old-myths …
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i.e. Myths are tools we use to understand ourselves in relationship with the world. How you use the tool isn't fully determined by the tool. You can use a wrench to spread mustard.
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But it's easier to use a knife or spoon. Much as it's easier to plant crops with a hoe than with a sword.
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Shoutout for Northrop Frye!
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Great thread here. Thanks. Here are my own thoughts on the political practicalities related to Peterson and ppl like him. A Few Words about Jordan Peterson, Logic and Marketinghttps://medium.com/@upine/a-few-words-about-jordan-peterson-logic-and-marketing-9b5223c10183 …
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Reminds of Castoriadis and his insistence about a rupture in the social imaginary allowing us to imagine an infinite variation of possible forms, which enables us autonomy over our creations (incl. our society). Peterson and Jung seem to want to close that rupture altogether.
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