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Open Literacy: Helen of Troy, Richard Hoggart, Phonic Wars, Greta Thunberg Cover

Open Literacy: Helen of Troy, Richard Hoggart, Phonic Wars, Greta Thunberg

Cultural Science
Volume 11 (2019): Issue 1 (January 2019)
By: John Hartley  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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Figure 1

‘Resolutely curb indulging and protect the healthy growth of young people’. New regulations ‘Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games’ are announced (November 5, 2019). Source: Xinhuanet.
‘Resolutely curb indulging and protect the healthy growth of young people’. New regulations ‘Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games’ are announced (November 5, 2019). Source: Xinhuanet.

Figure 2

Helen of Troy in art: paintings by J-L. David (1788) and Tintoretto (1578–9) emphasise different aspects of the myth – sexuality, seduction, compulsion, abduction, violence and rape. Images: Wikimedia Commons. 1) Paris et Hélene, by Jacques-Louis David (Louvre). Photo Livioandronico2013. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Love_of_Paris_and_Helen_by_Jacques-Louis_David.jpg 2) The Abduction of Helena, by Tintoretto (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid). Photo NYT. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tintoretto_Rape_of_Helen.jpg
Helen of Troy in art: paintings by J-L. David (1788) and Tintoretto (1578–9) emphasise different aspects of the myth – sexuality, seduction, compulsion, abduction, violence and rape. Images: Wikimedia Commons. 1) Paris et Hélene, by Jacques-Louis David (Louvre). Photo Livioandronico2013. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Love_of_Paris_and_Helen_by_Jacques-Louis_David.jpg 2) The Abduction of Helena, by Tintoretto (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid). Photo NYT. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tintoretto_Rape_of_Helen.jpg

Figure 3

AOC teaches an alternative kind of political literacy. Twitter: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
AOC teaches an alternative kind of political literacy. Twitter: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Figure 4

Peter Turchin’s data-map for ‘inequality moves in cycles’. Illustration © Peter Turchin 2013.
Peter Turchin’s data-map for ‘inequality moves in cycles’. Illustration © Peter Turchin 2013.

Figure 5

Greta Thunberg, outside the Swedish parliament. (2018). Photo Anders Hellberg, Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greta_Thunberg_4.jpg
Greta Thunberg, outside the Swedish parliament. (2018). Photo Anders Hellberg, Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greta_Thunberg_4.jpg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.126 | Journal eISSN: 1836-0416
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Language: English
Page range: 89 - 103
Submitted on: Nov 12, 2019
Accepted on: Nov 12, 2019
Published on: Dec 10, 2019
Published by: Tallinn, Erfurt University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
open literacy,
partisan politics,
knowledge systems,
myth,
Helen of Troy,
culture wars,
Richard Hoggart,
purposeless play,
insurrection,
Greta Thunberg
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Human-machine interaction,
Cultural studies,
Cultural theory,
General cultural theory,
Topics in cultural studies,
Human-animal studies,
Linguistics and semiotics,
Semiotics,
Biosemiotics

© 2019 John Hartley, published by Tallinn, Erfurt University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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