Attending Daedalus

b sharp12 Jun 2006, 14:59as archived

Attending Daedalus

Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus? The scholarly language makes me fear I miss the point. I think he is saying that BotNS story is really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address issues like colonization and imperialism and such. Any other thoughts on this? -bsharp

Tristan Davenport12 Jun 2006, 19:01as archived

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I haven't read Attending Daedalus, but from your description it sounds like the kind of everything-is-political criticism that's fashionable in PoMo academia these days. I believe the same kind of thing has been said about the New Testament, among other works. Tristan tristan_davenport at hotmail.com

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From: "b sharp" <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> To: urth at lists.urth.net Subject: (urth) Attending Daedalus Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:59:54 -0400 Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus? The scholarly language makes me fear I miss the point. I think he is saying that BotNS story is really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address issues like colonization and imperialism and such. Any other thoughts on this? -bsharp _______________________________________________

Chris13 Jun 2006, 00:22as archived

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http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0022/0039.shtml http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0307/3817.txt.shtml http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0026/0012.shtml For a few of the older references. I know the book has been mentioned on the list recently as well, at least once by me.

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Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus? The scholarly language makes me fear I miss the point. I think he is saying that BotNS story is really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address issues like colonization and imperialism and such. Any other thoughts on this? -bsharp _______________________________________________