Tag Archives: Life

culture decanted May 07

Is there a modern mythology of immortality or is it that some stories never die?

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Is the modern obsession with immortality new? Looking at immortality though from the perspective of mythology this reveals a lot about how we talk about aging today. The dominant stories that are told in popular culture are all reflections of myths that have lived forever.

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Culture Decanted September 13

Cradle to Coffin: A Semiotic Model of Life and Death

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There is nothing that influences human behavour as strongly as the power of life and death. It is possible to create a semiotic model that conceptualize how we create meaning on the journey from the womb to the grave.

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The psychology of the maze July 31

The Psychology of the Maze as a Modern Symbol

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    Why are we still a-maze-d by labyrinths? With a diverse range of permutations, the Maze is a symbol that has been with humanity since the pre-historic era. So pervasive is the labyrinth within human symbolic communication, it is impossible to think of a human era where it was not a deep structural metaphor […]

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