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a motionless world of time between
Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading
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a bolt of the volt
Among the men of the Enlightenment Francois Marie Arouet, self-styled Voltaire, stands first. The acid skepticism, the faith in nature and science, the hatred of theologians and dogmamongers, all this had already been formulated when Voltaire was still a fashionable … Continue reading
utopia: machines triumphant
Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading
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Tagged H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells When the Sleeper Wakes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karel Capek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler Erewhon, William Morris, William Morris News From Nowhere
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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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dual core
The paintings and art of the Orientalists, including photography, fostered tourism and a fascination with the Orient that shaped and reinforced the Western image of the Orient that is subjectively under the sway of still existing colonial motivations, religious intolerance … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Davidson, Eduard Charlemont, Edward Said, francois molins, H.G. Wells, Jacques Lacan, James Tissot, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Merah, Rabbi Sandler toulouse, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, toulouse killings
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if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
on thin ice with the mighty quinn
We pine for authenticity. The real . The genuine, wanting to graft ourselves onto it as part of an expression of our individuality. Or do we? It has to conform to our idea of it. Rousseau’s Noble Savage has to … Continue reading
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