Tuesday, March 11, 2008

More Pomo?

Honestly, I kind of enjoy the different arguments about Post Modernism and in certain respects I really enjoy it, and in others, I despise it. I did find Epley's argument about PoMo being around for much longer than the textbook writers will say it has been. He would bring up architecture and stuff from a couple centuries ago and how it's pastiche and all. Well, lately I stumbled upon a commercial made for a European audience where the ads will last up to 5 minutes or so. It's an advertisement for Prada where a woman is reciting a piece of literature as a voice over. It sounds incredibly modern. However, what she is reading is from a Gnostic text entitled Thunder Perfect Mind, which would have been written sometime in the first or second century, which takes Epley's argument much further back. Gnosticism was an early form of Christianity that died out after a couple centuries. Their texts focus more on theology and really stretched the mind, rather than really focusing on Jesus and all that... Anyways, the text was lost until it was discovered again in the 1940s along with about 11 or 12 other texts in a collection that is known as the Nag Hammadi library. Here is the Ad, hope find it as interesting as I do.

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