Let's Play Historian
Oct. 15th, 2008 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricThe rules of the game are as follows:
It is c. 3000 CE. Only fragments of 20th and 21st century culture survive. You, the historian, must make sweeping judgements and mad guesses about the interests, priorities and hangups of past civilisations on the basis of chance survivals.
Player One selects a decade or time period and three objects, texts, or persons whose works have survived.
Player Two must nominate their area of investigation (gender, sexuality, race, conflict, economics, etc), and post, in one sentence, their thesis. They then select another decade or time period, and a further three historical survivals.
Player Three repeats the process Player Two has just been through.
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Your survivals from the Australia in the 2000s are:
1. Around fifty opinion pieces by Miranda Devine.
2. Tripod's album About an Hour of Song-In-An-Hour.
3. Jindabyne.
Your time starts now.
It is c. 3000 CE. Only fragments of 20th and 21st century culture survive. You, the historian, must make sweeping judgements and mad guesses about the interests, priorities and hangups of past civilisations on the basis of chance survivals.
Player One selects a decade or time period and three objects, texts, or persons whose works have survived.
Player Two must nominate their area of investigation (gender, sexuality, race, conflict, economics, etc), and post, in one sentence, their thesis. They then select another decade or time period, and a further three historical survivals.
Player Three repeats the process Player Two has just been through.
~
Your survivals from the Australia in the 2000s are:
1. Around fifty opinion pieces by Miranda Devine.
2. Tripod's album About an Hour of Song-In-An-Hour.
3. Jindabyne.
Your time starts now.