Discussing narratives and dominant historical narratives

Historical narratives repeated often enough overtime and, left unchallenged, can appear as fact.

The back and forth of presentation from Andrew and James with problem solving and space for vulnerable conversations instead of grand narratives was really good. There is a space for knowledge building in not knowing. Investigation takes place in what investigative journalist, artist and filmmaker Laura Poitras describes with the metaphor of an accordion. She says; investigation expands narratives, if you imagine the folds of the accordion stretched, investigation and knowledge building takes place in between the collapsed folds.

At Gortyn, James read Shelley's sonnet Ozymandias below - what a treat, although I have yet to unpick this.

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.