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tomorrow: not rotating on the great cosmic wheel
The modern future was born, according to one precise dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440 in which he set out to predict the blissful state of human … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Camille Flammarion, Francis Bacon, Futurology, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist, Saint Augustine, Voltaire Micromegas
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the future is not what it was
…Our notions of the future have not only varied,they have also changed greatly in the course of time. The future, if nothing else, has a past-our own conception of it included. The modern future was born, according to one precise … Continue reading
trampling on the idea of progress
Is history without meaning, without power and without hope ? … …Even if professionals hold up their hands in horror at the idea of drawing lessons from history, others, far less capable, do not. Toynbee had no hesitation in trampling … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Askew, Arnold Toynbee, Caleb Stegall, Edward Albee, F.R. Leavis, Francis Bacon, Gemalde von Albert Anker, Girolamo da Treviso, Jared Diamond, Lawrwnce H. Keeley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, War of Kappel, Zwingli Protestant alliance
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couch sweet potatoes
Two undraped ladies; each with troubles enough of their own. Not only look-alikes but contemporaries, each of them took a prominent part in a minor revolution. Adah Menken was a kind of nineteenth-century Marilyn Monroe, and like her a peripheral … Continue reading
tottering Aristotle: the web spinners
Great examples of the illustration of the new age of science. Francis Bacon’s The Great Instauration followed a century of immense activity in the sciences, after discoveries in astronomy by Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler and galileo; after Gilbert’s experiments with … Continue reading
new atlantis: caves of custom
If one now asks why science arose as it did, it was Francis bacon which spread its doctrines. It is evident that the geographical dicoveries of his time, and the circumnavigation of the earth, had promoted an independent examination of … Continue reading
utopia: loitering in Icaria
Not content with the world as it is, people have always tried to imagine a world as it might become. it seems that old man time though has served to darken utopian visions in more ways than one… From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, Francis Bacon, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morelly, Rene Chateaubriand, Sigmund Freud, The Age of Reason, Tommaso Campanella, Utopian Socialists
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judging a cover by its book
Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin
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have utopia will travel
and to the nightmare. Dissatisfied with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become. Time, though, seems to have darkened out utopian visions in more ways than one…. For nearly two … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Francis Godwin Man in the Moone, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato, Plato and Diogenes, Plato Republic, Sir Thomas More
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