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future: like beads on an infinite string
The modern future was born, according to one dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440… …This linear conception of the time is another essential ingredient of the modern … Continue reading
chilling in the city of the sun
People have always tried to imagine the world as it might become, dissatisfied as we are, with the world as it exists. … For a century after Thomas More there was no sign of significant new utopias. Then within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Francis Bacon New Atlantis, Heinrich Schickhardt, J.V. Andreae, J.V. Andreae Christianopolis, Jan van Eyck, Johann Valentin Andreae, John Heydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Mignard painting, Sir Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Will Durant
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