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Jiang assigns students to photograph Beijing by looking for unnoticed things and contrasts, adapting Talese's attention to New York into a local observational exercise.
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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"They are very disciplined. They are very patient. So you can spend days and days in this room just working on a topic. This..."
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"New York is a city of contrast. I want you to do the same thing for Beijing. Take your camera and take pictures of..."
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"...remember, in the beginning of class, I had you do an assignment, which is write down the speech. Right? And even though you didn't..."
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"...And the way I teach is, I would give them an assignment. And I would give them resources. And it would be a competition...."
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"...day two, we would start the competition again with a new assignment. On day two, which team would finish first? Do you guys know?..."
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"...they take their work very seriously? If I give people an assignment, will they work really hard or are they willing to make sacrifices..."
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"...first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for you guys about Achilles. The..."
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"...their missionary efforts theological arguments and messianic prophecies with a shrewd assignment of the political advantages that the Khazars would derive from adopting a..."
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"...He joins the Washington Post Metro section. Guess what his first assignment is? It's Watergate. Who the hell does that? Who the hell gets..."
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"...this new class is called individual empowerment and my very first assignment to all my students is I want you guys to go shoplift..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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A source-grounded reading of literary journalism as a two-part discipline: exploration begins when a researcher can listen until a stranger becomes a friend; reflection begins when craft becomes patient pursuit of perfection.
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