Norland Téllez, PhD
Discovering Bright-sided
I first learned about Barbara Ehrenreich when I stumbled upon an interview with Catherine Liu for Jacobin, where the notion of the PMC or Professional Managerial Class is discussed and developed. The interview centered on the development of this notion of the PMC as formulated by Barbara and John Ehrenreich published in the Radical Magazine for the…
The Flight of Icarus
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Jul 12, 2020
The Transcendence of the Unprecedented
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Mar 21, 2020
Daedalus as Archetypal Artist
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Mar 16, 2020
The Rising Dawn of Maya Time
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Dec 29, 2019
The Initiation of Our Age
By Norland Téllez, PhD | May 24, 2019
Grammatological Opening
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Sep 28, 2018
The Hyphen of Mytho-History
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Sep 27, 2018
Writing in Space
By Norland Téllez, PhD | Mar 26, 2018
Norland Téllez is an artist and teacher with over two decades of experience in the entertainment industry. As a scholar of myth and history, he remains committed to critical thinking through the power of the mythic image.
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Discovering Bright-sided
I first learned about Barbara Ehrenreich when I stumbled upon an interview with Catherine Liu for Jacobin, where the notion of the PMC or Professional Managerial Class is discussed and developed. The interview centered on the development of this notion of the PMC as formulated by Barbara and John Ehrenreich published in the Radical Magazine for the…
Read MoreThe Flight of Icarus
As we saw last time, the secret identity-in-difference between Hephaestus, Daedalus, Talos, and Icarus begins to expose the greater network of mythic inflexions that belong to the archetype of the artist in Greek mythology. If Daedalus represents the artist himself, Icarus, his son, stands for the work of art and its fall into the lifeless…
Read MoreThe Transcendence of the Unprecedented
Asking the fundamental question of being in our own times, we have to face the gaping existential blindspot which prevents us from properly knowing ourselves.
Read MoreDaedalus as Archetypal Artist
Robert Graves notes the secret identity-in-difference shared by all the figures associated with Daedelus—an archetypal network of partial identifications—whose divine ‘center’ is Hephaestus, the ‘hobbled’ God of artistic productivity and ‘Vulcanic’ creation.
Read MoreThe Rising Dawn of Maya Time
From time immemorial, in the highlands of Mesoamerica, the spectacle of the winter solstice, this most sacred of rising dawns, has offered a precise point of spiritual concentration and reflection on the nature of being in time.
Read MoreThe Initiation of Our Age
Attempting to trace my own “path to bliss” I do not engage in a self-centered affair, for it is not a question of “my” individuation alone…
Read MoreGrammatological Opening
A consequent grammatological opening of the Popol-Wuh has already been deployed by Gordon Brotherston in his remarkable Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature
Read MoreThe Hyphen of Mytho-History
“We, in fact, are dealing with a unified history that embraces in continuous succession the whole historical-cultural process: history written in terms of mythological thought, which is historical for these people.”
Read MoreWriting in Space
Let us place emphasis for a moment on this silent hyphen of mytho-history, this inaudible little dash which at the same time unites and separates the mythical dimensions from the historic substance of creative-being itself. This little dash that dialectically separates and unites myth and history in the mytho-historic dynamics of creative-being belongs to that…
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