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Jiang's phrase for medieval Christian art that overwhelms the observer with divine mystery and discourages participation.
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Blinding and awesome
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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"...windows, the effect that is created in the observer is blinding and awesome. Remember, these are windows and they're high up in the church...."
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"...Okay? This is Da Vinci's The Last Supper. And from blinding and awesome, we go to compelling and curious. What this means is, compelling..."
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"...convinced about Christianity. I was, oh, that's cool. Bible stories are awesome. And then there was one month where I had nightmares every night..."
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"...to do some exercise. Okay. good yeah treadmill man this is awesome you're fat i'll make you exercise for the rest of your"
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"...Express. How. Much. Love. You. Have. For. This. Person. Or. How. Awesome. Wonderful. This. Person. Is."
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"...change direction as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome and all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the..."
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"...was what looked something like a vault sparkling like crystal and awesome under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other..."
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"...like i'm perfectly happy here man i've been to heaven i'm awesome you know like i've been to Yale I'm the worst student at..."
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"Awesome day, John and wife. Thanks for the love you have shared together to create such treasured content and family. I'm going to list..."
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"...then they go and try again. Well, this has been a awesome discussion. I really enjoyed it, guys. I mean, I know we're running..."
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"What that story... It sounds awesome. First of all, I'll tell you I've trained to clear underground nuclear bunkers back in 20... Was it..."
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"...let's say, 70 % of what it was. Okay, this is awesome for America oil, like Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil. They're really non -incentivized..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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