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Is it that no one read it in its entirety and just pulls out the one quote that seems to sort of match what they want to say and then ignore the rest?

He says "Morrison, based on observations by psychedelics and shamanism researcher Terence McKenna, as well as calendrical predictions of the Maya, determines that the [next stage of evolution of the world] will come sometime around 2012"

Yes, because clearly shamans, mushroom eaters, and the Maya could predict the end of a society that didn't exist when they did...

How? How is this book considered scholarship?

I realize these essays were written quite a while ago.

But...I still wonder...why on earth anyone thought they were legitimate even then?

I mean, someone who is non-ironically quoting a source titled "The Archaic Revival: Speculation on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess and the End of History" as explanatory surely has a screw or two loose.

Deliberate sequentiality is an insufficient explanation for the narrative effect of sequential graphic images in comics.

"In principle, a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso presented chronologically in a book could e called a deliberate sequence of images, conveying information about an artistic development over time. It is nevertheless very unlikely that many people would call such a book a comic."

"For a comic not to be a story it should be possible to create a global coherence on the basis of something other than story-structure and in which the local coherences are made on inferences based on parameters other than actions, actors time, and place..this is, if anything, only a theoretical possibility, as there will always be a narrative effect in a sequence of graphic images."