Michel Serres, Statues. 

1. What does Serres compare to the 1986 explosion of the rocket Challenger? – Serres compares the explosion of the challenger to the story of Icarus.  

2. What does television do to an ‘event’ like the explosion of the Challenger? – Tv can portray these events in a way that makes people view them from a more distant, and detached relation. It can make events like this explosion seem more of a spectacle than it is.  

3. What does Serres claim is the ‘essential thing’ that remains in our reshowing of the images of the explosion? – The everlasting effect it leaves on the viewers.  

4. What have we learned about exclusion? – People in the present aren’t the only ones that can be left out. Events and whole chunks of past civilizations and societies are often excluded and forgotten by society through neglection, and misrepresentation.  

5. How many road deaths in France per year, according to Serres? – According to Serres, there are 10,000 road deaths in France per year.   

Joan Connolly, The Parthenon Enigma pages 1- 125 before we arrive in Athens. 

1. Who proclaimed in the 18th century that the peak of Greek art coincided with their democratic form of government? – Immanuel Kant was the first person to proclaim that the peak of Greek art with their democratic political system.  

2. Who banned all polytheistic statuary? – Emperor Constantine banned all polytheistic religions when he became a Christian.  

3. Who was enthroned at the Acropolis and dedicated a reconstruction of the Parthenon? What would be removed? – Pericles was enthroned at the Acropolis, and the Elgin Marbles would later be removed.

 Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents. Pp. 11- 20. 

1. What does he conclude when Freud suggests, “now let us, by a flight of imagination, suppose that Rome is not a human habitation but a psychical entity with a similarly long and copious past?