Tag Archives: Paul Goodman

child’s utopia

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Dave

It was founded in the mid 1930’s and really reflected the John Dewy “progressive education” ethos of a liberal education; the progressive critique of the conventional assumptions about learning, pedagogical principles and economic thinking as well as religion. The Burgess … Continue reading →

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the new seekers

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dave

Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading →

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gotta serve somebody

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Art

However different the society’s they pictured, both Otto Dix and Toulouse Lautrec represented a society in which the proletariat underclass or the under-underclass served the bourgeois upper echelons.  And, war and sex, in the sense of romantic realism were seen … Continue reading →

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VENTRILOQUIST ITCHING FOR REVOLUTION: STEPPE BY STEPPE

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Dave

Been away so long I hardly knew the place Gee, it’s good to be back home Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case Honey disconnect the phone I’m back in the USSR You don’t know how lucky you are, … Continue reading →

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