There was a time, a hundred or more years ago, when scholars regularly used this term “sympathetic magic” to name the process by which one thing was thought to affect something else — but doing so not by means of the cause/effect relationships we usually take for granted. If, for example, I rub this stone in just this way then something will happen over there to that mountain, or if I treat this lock of hair in some fashion then […]
Tag: Semiotics
The Romans in Films, Again
Have you seen Hail Cesar? It’s both an homage to and a parody of the days when studios controlled Hollywood. George Clooney plays an actor playing a Roman in a movie about Christ. […]