Tag Archives: Percy Bysshe Shelley

pornography and politics

Pornography becomes quite explosive, and seemingly much more corrupting when it is applied to politics. Most people regard pornography as something to satisfy the prurient curiosity of the sex-starved or the deviant. However, pornography of a purely sexual nature, as … Continue reading

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karl marx: the romantic idealist

Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …It was to this generation that Karl Marx, born in 1818, belonged. There is no cause for surprise that he became a revolutionary; it would almost … Continue reading

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karl marx: many faces

The many faces of Karl Marx: Prophet, historian, newspaperman, revolutionary, philosopher, fond papa- all thse faces were his, and one other; that is, the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… One can imagine few greater … Continue reading

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problems of evil

What entered god’s mind when he put the serpent into the Garden of Eden, only he knows, and by now he may well have regretted it, had second thoughts, or perhaps forgot. In any event, it’s too late. But since … Continue reading

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suddenly mary

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MONSTER UNLEASHED: Happy Birthday Mary Shelley 1797-1851 It was a “wet, ungenial summer” in Switzerland when Mary Godwin (traveling as “Mrs. Shelley”) went to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and their son, and Claire Clairmont … Continue reading

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this hour has 9 minutes and 11 seconds

Part of the long and victorious march of image over substance? Arafat. still a celebrity. Still a locus for the communal lives of many. It is one of those incomprehensible and unexplainable side effects whereby a manufactured pop culture icon … Continue reading

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a-roving on the wane and sane

The cup is full and sometimes it runneth over.  The moon has always been, since the dawn of the human being, a symbol of love, and a pervasive theme  among artists such as poets, novelists and writers and painters within … Continue reading

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forever young: eternal trial

Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading

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doppleganger effect: second selves and ghostly doubles

A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception Tai Carmen: Though pop references to “doppelgangers” (a German word translating to “double-walker”) are often used to describe people who resemble one another, the word … Continue reading

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design principles: produced by blind law?

At heart, those who do not believe in evolution are heretics. That is, they are ignorant, stupid or insane, according to Richard Dawkins. Its the non-existence of god, where even the absence of belief is a from of ideology assuming … Continue reading

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