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valor and horrors
This hardly a chicken soup story. Sometimes you come across things that confirms that bone in the throat sensation when we doubt the platitudes and rhetoric that the West values the sanctity of human life. Its a Fabian nightmare where … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian and Terrence McKenna, Denman Ross, Fred Burton, fred burton chasing shadows, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, israel yom kippur war, jack levine art, Jackson Pollock, joe alon, John Updike, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Moshe Dayan Yom Kippur War, Seldon Rodman, The Fabian Society, The Valor and the Horror documentary
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distrusting the utopian prophets
Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading
revolution on the cutting room floor
Definitely a precursor to today’s political re-mix videos. Passionate agit-pop that incarnated all the hopes and dreams that the socialist project promised. Alvarez’s videos are intense projections that sear the conservative canons of capitalist ideology; the whole market system and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Shahn, Dziga Vertov, Fabian Society, Fidel Castro, H.G. Wells, John Heartfield, John Steinbeck, lena horne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Now! Santiago Alvarez, Santiago Alvarez
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by another name
Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Bloomsbury Group, colin odell, D.H. Lawrence, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry Ford, Henry Kissinger, j.m. coetzee, Julian Huxley, robert w. chambers, Theodor Adorno, Tod Browning, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, virginia wolf
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shapes of things
Toward the middle of the 1890′s H.G. Wells began writing reviews, articles and stories. But he was not consciously starting a literary career. After all, he was a science instructor. But, an illness forced him out of teaching, and he … Continue reading
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Tagged Fabian Society, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, science fiction history, society for psychical research, Thorstein Veblen
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mid life crisis: faulty time machine
Shapes of things. Fabian socialism. Martians sucking blood from humans for nourishment. H.G. Wells emergence as a novelist proper belongs to the period between the turn of the century and the end of its first decade, when he was able … Continue reading
wobbly aliens and the chill of the cold warriors
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i assume almost all of you have seen the classic 1953 movie version by george pal of H.G. Wells’ “war of the worlds”, right? remember that scene in the movie when they decide to nuke … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, b2 stealth bomber, dan forbes pilot, dan forbes yb-49, Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright space ship, george pal, george pal h.g. wells, glen edwards pilot, H.G. Wells, h.g. wells war of the worlds, kenneth arnold sighting, northrop yb-49, roswell crash, UFO's
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smelly little orthodoxies
Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco
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