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Jiang uses world-building to describe the viewer's effort to fill out each part of a painting until its implied reality becomes more fully inhabited.
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world-build
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, right, so you're basically trying to world -build, okay? World -build. Okay, anyone else? Yes?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, right, so you're basically trying to world -build, okay? World -build. Okay, anyone else? Yes?"
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"Okay, right, so you're basically trying to world -build, okay? World -build. Okay, anyone else? Yes?"
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"...it's a concept. It's not a world, whereas Dante will actually build the world, okay? So I'm just saying, like, conceptually, how is Purgatory..."
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"...look back when it's like how's it possible for me to world build okay how's it possible for me to create all these people..."
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"...all right so any more questions yes yeah maybe to to build off that um"
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"...the fact that they cry together connects them together and that builds community. Okay? Alright. Okay. So let's keep on going. But you can..."
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"build aristotle and that's a very interesting analysis at this time aristotle is very popular and dante would have known aristotle he would have..."
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"...all right yes she had said something that i wanted to build off of"
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"...had the evening news and evening news was a place to build consensus to build community with social media you just go you live..."
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"...slow to punish you may then kaprar and gorgona move and build a hedge across the arnold's mouth so that you may drown every..."
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"...time if you keep on doing this you'll discover i can build my own favorite i don't need this for grain framework anymore but..."
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"...his status and his safety to shield the divine spark and build an eternal escape hatch for"
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"...the love that nature forges is forgotten, but added love that builds a special trust. Thus in the tightest circle, where there is the..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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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 late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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