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malthus: specter at the feast
Thomas Robert Malthus. Hunger is always at the door, even in an era like our own. People still die of starvation. Do people starve because there are too many of us ? Or, is famine the necessary companion, the price … Continue reading
the future: misleading desires for permanence
The future is a relic, and industry and a myth. For all our scientific prognostications, do we know any more about it than the average Zoroastrian? …After Louis Sebastien Mercier passed into the dustbin of history, a new breed of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Auguste Comte, John Gast painter, Jules Verne, LOuis Sebastien Mercier L'an 2440, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist
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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
Promise them anything
…but give them a propadeutic scenario…. Bird’s guts, crystal balls, the stars in the heavens, tea leaves- individuals have resorted to all of these and more in an effort to foretel the future. Today, the seer’s tools are charts, statistics, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Anthony J. Wiener, Antonin Artaud, Futurology, Herman Kahn, Jean Paul Sartre, John William Waterhouse, Joseph L. Fisher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malthus, Marquis de Condorcet, Max Beckmann, Max Beckmann falling man, peter drucker, William Blake
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enlightened unreason
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. This is our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought. It has persisted for over two centuries. This is a tradition which is bending against strains that challenge its hegemony. At what … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Jean Maury, Denis Diderot, Francis Picabia, Immanuel Kant, Jean de La Harpe, jean huber, jean huber swiss painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Mel Ramos art, Peter Howson art, roberto matta, Santayana, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire
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POKING INTO DARK CORNERS:ILLEGAL & SALACIOUS
”Whether such pronouncement represented genuine alarm or rhetorical posturing is difficult to say, but the authorities certainly took slander seriously. On may 28, 1649, the Parlement of Paris tried to restore order in the capital by threatening to hang anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Gedeon Lafitte, Comte de Bussey, French Revolution, George Cruickshank, James Gillray, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Marat, Marat, Marquis de Condorcet, Marquis de Sade, Robert Darnton, Roger de Rabutin, Sade, Voltaire
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MARRIED TO TEMPTATION
”Marriage without love, is the Compleatest Misery in life. Besides, I must say, it is to me utterly unlawful, and entails a Curse upon the persons, as being wilfully perjured, invoking the Name of GOD to a falsehood, which is … Continue reading
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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Adam Smith, Albert Bierstadt, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Bernard Jolibert, Bernard Picart, Christopher Columbus, Conrad Black, Dan Brown, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Emanuel Leutze, Frederic Remington, French and Indian Wars, George Washington, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Howard Terpning, Jeff Nall, John Graves Simcoe, John Locke, John Trudell, Keith S. Thomson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, madame Vernet, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Michael T. Lubragge, Randy Newman, Robert Redford, Theodor de Bry, Will Wilkinson, www.willwilkinson.net
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NATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The concept of the Manifest Destiny has acquired a variety of meanings over the years, and its inherent ambiguity has been part of its power. ”Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.F. Tait, Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Abbe Raynal, Adrian van der Kemp, American Indian Movement, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Benjamin West, bishop Madison of Virginia, Chief Crazy Horse, Comte de Buffon, Crazy Horse, Dr. William Robertson, Ernest Lee Tuveson, Father Francisco Clavijero, Freud, General Sir William Johnson, George Catlin, Gerald Boerner, Greuze, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Isaac Newton, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Keith S. Thomson, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Philip Mazzei, Rochambeau, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Jefferson, www.boerner.net
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INDIAN GIVERS & LAND DITHERS
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Stuart, American Slavery, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Billy Bowlegs, Comte de Buffon, Conrad Black, E. Adamson Hoebel, Ellen Wallace Sharples, Freidrich von Gentz, Geoff Mangum, George Catlin, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Jerry Keenan, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Jefferson
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