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Jiang's label for Dante's invocation of Apollo as a lesser god within a Christian world, emphasizing the poem's audacity.
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sacrilege
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...So he is invoking Apollo as a lesser god, which is sacrilege, by the way, in this world. Okay? Keep on going."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...So he is invoking Apollo as a lesser god, which is sacrilege, by the way, in this world. Okay? Keep on going."
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Jiang interprets Dante's address to Apollo as invoking him as a lesser god and therefore as an act of sacrilege within the Christian world Dante inhabits.
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"...So he is invoking Apollo as a lesser god, which is sacrilege, by the way, in this world. Okay? Keep on going."
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"...from the Iranian perspective, it is an abomination, okay? It is sacrilege, what the UAE is. It is demonic, okay? The Iranians hate the,..."
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"Okay, so it's just saying that the Holy Trinity, it's sacrilege. It's blessing. Trust me, it makes no sense, man. God is God. God..."
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"...religious they're atheists in fact Orthodox Jews believe that Zionism is sacrilege it's an operation it's a blasphemy against the true religion so and..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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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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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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