A long time ago, in a cave, an instrument of some sort was taken up and the result was a picture on the rock of an animal. Later on, people would carve the face of a "god," or an animal on wood and place it in the center of their community. Then began the sculpting of the image from granite, marble, silver or gold. Eventually a face was imprinted on a coin that was exchanged within the community, the state and the world. A bust or a profile was improved upon in a major way with the exact likeness of the person painted on canvas. Next came the photo followed by the recorded voice and then the moving film.
There were apparitions of a "being" claiming to be Mary, the mother of Jesus, there are holograms and then there is the imagination. Let's see, I don't think that I have seen a picture of Dobie Gillis for quite a few years but I can picture it very well, and yet just today I saw The Lone Ranger in a book on the 50's, and yep, it's just like I remembered. Images...I can open a photo album and see an image of myself when I was 8 lbs.
Peter, James and John saw Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration and many Bible personages saw images given to them by God. We see images on a Rorschach Test or clouds. Plato said that the concept of a "horse" is real, that there is a form of a horse somewhere beyond our physical life and when we see a horse today that it is only something like the real "form" of horse. A philosopher closer to our times, Ferdinand de Saussure would say to Plato "Horse? Horse? There is no horse. Now there is something that you can jump on and say giddy up, but there is no horse., We just call it a horse" Sigmund Freud would say to de Saussure "Do you dream about a horse...I mean ...this thing you can jump on and say giddy up?" But I digress, let me get back to images.
A decade ago, feminists held the first conference with reimagining as the concept. They reimagined the Bible in a "new" way. It is a concept that seems to have taken hold of many areas of our lives. Many try to reimagine the Constitution. Others reimagine what an author originally had in mind. We reimagine inanimate objects, a gun is a killer. We reimagine concepts, marriage is gender interchangeable. We reimagine people, Hillary Clinton is well qualified to be Secretary of State. We are Postmoderns. Patriotism can be what you want it to be, as can justice and liberty. Maybe tonight I'll dream about buying a resemblance to the form of a horse, throwing a de Saussure on its back and going for a ride.
There were apparitions of a "being" claiming to be Mary, the mother of Jesus, there are holograms and then there is the imagination. Let's see, I don't think that I have seen a picture of Dobie Gillis for quite a few years but I can picture it very well, and yet just today I saw The Lone Ranger in a book on the 50's, and yep, it's just like I remembered. Images...I can open a photo album and see an image of myself when I was 8 lbs.
Peter, James and John saw Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration and many Bible personages saw images given to them by God. We see images on a Rorschach Test or clouds. Plato said that the concept of a "horse" is real, that there is a form of a horse somewhere beyond our physical life and when we see a horse today that it is only something like the real "form" of horse. A philosopher closer to our times, Ferdinand de Saussure would say to Plato "Horse? Horse? There is no horse. Now there is something that you can jump on and say giddy up, but there is no horse., We just call it a horse" Sigmund Freud would say to de Saussure "Do you dream about a horse...I mean ...this thing you can jump on and say giddy up?" But I digress, let me get back to images.
A decade ago, feminists held the first conference with reimagining as the concept. They reimagined the Bible in a "new" way. It is a concept that seems to have taken hold of many areas of our lives. Many try to reimagine the Constitution. Others reimagine what an author originally had in mind. We reimagine inanimate objects, a gun is a killer. We reimagine concepts, marriage is gender interchangeable. We reimagine people, Hillary Clinton is well qualified to be Secretary of State. We are Postmoderns. Patriotism can be what you want it to be, as can justice and liberty. Maybe tonight I'll dream about buying a resemblance to the form of a horse, throwing a de Saussure on its back and going for a ride.
