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at the speed of a mouse: ease of epiphany
Battle of the prophets? Back a thousand years ago, the Jewish sage Maimonides had no illusions about an Islamic Golden Age. For a Jew it was a precarious existence and he thought and witnessed the particular animus of Muslim culture … Continue reading
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Tagged alastair campbell, Andrea Mantegna, B.F. Skinner, carrie bradshaw, doug saunders globe and mail, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Ed Milibrand, Giotto di Bordone, Islamic Conversions, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides in Egypt, Mark Steyn
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the future looks bright
Rube Goldberg.A fantasy world. And a fantasy not always in harmony with reality. W.C. Fields used to say “blame it on inertia” The inertia, the near fear and terror is technology in conflict with the established aesthetic rules of the … Continue reading
shafia: pet rats in a skinner box touch his lever
and so it is. Like Freud’s Totem and Taboo, we have an ape man living in groups dominated by an all powerful father who kept all women for his own exclusive sexual use and abuse. Unlimited, buffet style access to … Continue reading
when the abyss stares back
You have to question one of the basic axioms of Western life, a foundational myth of the enlightenment that “civilized” society values human life. That a life is precious. Sanctified. Or rather, an eye for an eye. A tooth for … Continue reading
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Tagged a.j. heschel, Al Sharpton, Albert Camus, artemisia Gentileschi, B.F. Skinner, Ben Shahn, ben shahn the passion of sacco and vanzetti, d. elton trueblood, eli cohen spy, Francisco Goya, goya the third of may, john c. woods, john f. mortimer, rick perry texas, robert e. conot, tom sachs artist, troy davis execution, victor hugo capital punishment, victor hugo death penalty
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mad man
it would be a reasonable proposition to have characterized him as the proto-typical mad scientist. In the 1960’s Dr. Jose Delgado made himself the messiah of the New Jerusalem to be achieved through electrical control of the brain. In the … Continue reading
ideology: ready to drive the car
Anders Behring Breivik deemed his act as “atrocious” but necessary in his statement to police. It begs to ask the question if the current propaganda war between Democrat and Republican is not part of some far reaching new variations of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged anders behring breivik, anders breivik, B.F. Skinner, ben affleck the town, blake lively, Christopher Hitchens, Kevin McCarthy, Noam Chomsky, Ottmar Horl, rep. allen west, Rick Salutin, Ron Paul, rpger andresen
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the ghost in the machine
Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Alan Turing, B.F. Skinner, Bill gates, Charles Darwin, cyborgs, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, eugenics, gilbert ryle, hugh loebner, kevin warwick, Lady Gaga, Lev Grossman, raymond kurzweil, Rene Descartes, robotic technology, the singularity, transhumanism, transhumanist clubs, W.B. Yeats
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from babylon to berlin: endless summer
The universal stream of forms flows on. What Hannah Arendt called the pulse of life, an interminable grinding of contradictions amidst a violent clash of the irreconcilable. How to find meaning in those unpredictable flashes in the space between. A … Continue reading
shaggy dog stories: the dog peeling the banana…
Sometimes the bark is worse than the bite. Sometimes its not…In the tradition of Greek mythology, Cerebrus, a triple headed canine, guarded the entrance of the gate of the dead, and served as a protector for those crossing over.Generally, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alphonse de Lamartine, B.F. Skinner, Carpaccio, Conrad Lorenz, Decaisne, Edgar Peters Bowron, Eric Knight, Gustave de Smet, Honoré Fragonard, Jack London, Jan van Eyck, Joshua Reynolds, Konrad Lorenz, Pierre gobert, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Vittoro Carpaccio, white fang jack london
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An Oscar for the “male gaze”
Since the first biblical patriarchs wandered out of Babylonia to the Egyptian Pharoahs and through the Greek theatre of Aristophanes to modern Hollywood, the male hero has been the center of the universe. Copernicus proved “man” was not the center … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Academy awards Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, Aristophanes, B.F. Skinner, Dorothy Arzner, Dustin Hoffman, Guy Debord, James Bond, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Katharine Hepburn, Laura Mulvey, Lee Wallace, Oscar Awards, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosalind Russell
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