Politics is nothing. We are free only on the ocean. ~ Renato Beluche
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Seafaring Sunday: Finding Antarctica
November 18, 1820: American mariner and shipwright Nathaniel Brown Palmer, while captaining the sloop Hero, becomes the first post-modern man to touch at the continent of Antarctica.
Header: Nathaniel Brown Palmer in the 1870s via Wikipedia
"Post-modern?" Meaning Palmer believed that that reality is subjective and the act of interpretation creates the "real?"
Never figured Foucault, Boudrillard, and Bourdieu to figure into maritime history, but then deconstruction is like shipworm...it'll get into everything eventually.
...at which point the First Mate turned to him and said "Cold enough for ye?"
ReplyDelete(The First Mate hasn't been heard from since)
Ha! Something we never hear people say here in Alaska, Captain...
ReplyDelete"Post-modern?" Meaning Palmer believed that that reality is subjective and the act of interpretation creates the "real?"
ReplyDeleteNever figured Foucault, Boudrillard, and Bourdieu to figure into maritime history, but then deconstruction is like shipworm...it'll get into everything eventually.
Captain: No kidding; he's leopard seal bait now...
ReplyDeleteTimmy! Cold enough for you?
Lou: Yes! He was anticipating Satre!
Finding Antarctica?
ReplyDeletehahaha - hadn't realised we'd lost it!
[2] "How do ya find Antarctica?"
{Ans.} 'Fly to Austrailya and turn right" ;-)