Reactionary Medievalism
Added 2025-09-26 22:37:48 +0000 UTCSpeculating about the American Right-Wing's reactionary medievalism from Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco (https://amzn.to/46rtU8Z)
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Very interesting. You said we cannot imagine 10 versions of ancient times. I think we could give it a try. But maybe even more fun would be to present 10 versions of current times. There could be: - technological - catastrophic - neotribal - therapeutical ...
P B
2025-10-14 20:23:05 +0000 UTCAlso, the somewhat confusing bit around 1:54 about reaching China to find men with one foot refers to mythic, fantastical Medieval Western accounts of what the East was like. One of Eco's later novels, Baudolino, is a kind of travelogue set in the Middle Ages where the protagonist travels to the East and meets with people with one big foot, people with their faces in their chests, etc.
Tim G
2025-10-09 15:43:47 +0000 UTC
