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printing press: deadlier than a guillotine
Money and revolutions. Noted revolutions such as the American, Russian, French and Chinese all needed cash. badly. So they set about manufacturing some. The printing press, it can be stated, is deadlier than the guillotine… There were plenty of men … Continue reading
get off of my cloud
All these films are a bit ingenious. They have some agenda,but it places Zionism itself within an uncomfortable framework; an imperial project based on the superiority of the western European white as superior being armed with all the arguments of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1956 Tripartite Aggression, Amir Ramses film maker, Amir Ramsis director, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Henri Curiel, Jewish Egyptians, John Stuart Mill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nadia Kamel, Operation Magic Carpet Yemen, Salata Baladi film, The Lavon Affair, Voltaire Enlightenment
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the odd couple: birds of a leather
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens John Forster, giuseppi mazzini, Godefroy Cavaignac, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, John Forster biographer, John Stuart Mill, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, madame pckwick art blog, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marianne Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Greaves
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waiting for god-oh!… a matter of memory
What is a jew? The question is more easily posed than responded to, or at least those responses differ in an agree to disagree manner. That could be predicted in avance, given that Jewish history has never conformed to reasonable … Continue reading
walking on old stones: no stone unturned
Ziononism is racism. Not really. If anything its a form of self-hatred that denies any element of the spiritual within the individual. Like the art critic Clement Greenberg, who acknowledged his own Jewish self hatred and said the spiritual in … Continue reading
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Tagged Avi Farchan, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, David Ben Gurion, George Orwell, gush katif expulsion, John Stuart Mill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Slavoj Zizek, Yamit expulsion, Zionism and the holocaust
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caliban
Fear of a Black planet? The hypocritical emancipatory liberalism of John Stuart Mill that seems to reinforce patriarchy, racism in the most delectable sugar coating that today’s pop culture can occultishly conjure up. O Brave New World of Shakespeare’s The … Continue reading
men of property
Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, Arnold Bennett, attilio pusterla, edward garnett, Emma Goldman, galsworthy the silver box, giovacchino toma, giuseppe pellizza da volpedo, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, john galsworthy the pigeon, John Sloan, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath rebel sell, mary cassatt, Naomi Klein, ralph mctell streets of london, thomas frank the baffler, Virginia Woolf
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the poor don’t need your pity
…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, arthur galsworthy, augustus edwin mulready, Charles Dickens, george elgar hicks, Gustave Dore, jacob viner, james collinson paintings, Jeremy Bentham, John Galsworthy, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, Malthus, thomas benjamin kennington
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closing the sacredness gap
There is a conjunction, a point of inflection between morality and emotion that translates itself into the political sphere in an almost predictable yet unsettling fashion. Its a zone where we can explain conservative electoral success while at the same … Continue reading
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