If you missed the SXSW Interactive 2010 panel, you can still get the mediated version of it. Watch a Bullhead Entertainment’s The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay. Listen to the talk below, or download it here. You might also check out the expanded and revised version of Amanda French's talk, "The Binary Hero, World One, and World Zero."
You can find bios & contacts for the panelists on the SXSW site. Check out the response to the panel on twitter. You can watch a video of John Jones’s presentation. Check back soon for pics and video of the panel. In the meantime, brush up on the allegory of the cave with these resources:
- A different animated version of the allegory can be found here.
- The allegory is an excerpt of book VII of The Republic.
- This is The Internet Classics Archive’s HTML version of The Republic by Plato.
- You can also listen to the LibriVox audiobook version of The Republic by Plato.
- This is the “good” translation of books I-V and books VI-X of The Republic.