FMC: Inaugurating the Icon0clasm Ball!
The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognizability, is the past to be held fast. “The truth will not run away from us” – this remark by Gottfried Keller denotes the exact place where historical materialism breaks through historicism’s picture of history. For it is an irretrievable picture of the past, which threatens to disappear with every present, which does not recognize itself as meant in it. Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History It's August, so submissions for The Icon0clasm Ball for Fantastic Medieval Campaigns have opened! I'm genuinely excited to see what y'all come up with, because the discursive universe of OD&D needs something new (and, dare I say, it deserves a better reception than as the germ of brand-name Dungeons & Dragons or of old-school revisionism). I've made steady progress on my major project for this, and I'm hopefully (hopefully!)...