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Jiang proposes that, within the class's running reading of the Divine Comedy, the siren can be read as Virgil himself seducing Dante through poetry and leading him astray.
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Seduction
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A student reads Screwtape Letters as a demon-centered instruction manual in seduction and deception, extending the class's model of how Lucifer might speak.
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Jiang defines fraud through Geryon: a creature with an honest, trustworthy face and a scorpion tail that can sting at any time.
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Fraud seduces a victim into trust or cooperation and only then delivers the sting.
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In Jiang's model, Jacob Frank's stories are powerful because they act like memetic technology: memorable, seductive narratives that enter consciousness and alter perception.
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Jiang compares Jacob Frank to Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard because Frank's charisma, hypnosis, seduction, and logic make followers experience his persuasive storytelling as a kind of magic.
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"okay so again as virgil was kind of higher more and more visions come to him and this is a very strange dream right..."
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"In our understanding of the divine comedy, who is the siren? Do you know what I mean? Okay, yeah, I know the siren is..."
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"It makes me think about C.S. Lewis's Screw Type Letters. I think it was basically written about an uncle demon who was trying to..."
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"Okay, so two points. The first point is that to descend from the circle of violence, the circle of fraud, okay, and quite honestly,..."
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"And not only that, starts to sing the song to himself or herself. And this song becomes a virus almost. It seeps into your..."
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"But there's no law that says you can't do that, right? That's why he's so powerful. Because he's taking all these conventions, all this..."
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"...to form this fantasy, which often dominates a woman's entire life, seduction fantasy. One part truth, one part gratification of love, and one part..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
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