Tag Archives: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dave

…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma: The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dai Dudu, Fiscal Cliff United States, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, Hieronymous Bosch, James Rickards currency wars, Li Tiezi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Winslow Homer, Zhang An | Leave a comment

parapsycho-illogical: leaning on the divine mechanic

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

Since the dawn of the twentieth-century, scientists have systematically shattered the mechanistic universe- and made room among the black holes for ESP, PK,mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …The myth of scientific materialism rests in a historical context. In a sense it … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albert Einstein, art blog, Arthur Koestler, Dr. J.B. Rhine, Dr. Luisa Rhine, Isaac Newton, J.D. Bernal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcellin Berthelot, margaret mead, Marquis de Laplace, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, William A. Tiller | Leave a comment

the other sides of midnight

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Dave

Sin City. The moral cautionary tales as a somewhat more narrative and less complex representation than say Bruegel or Bosch though there is more sophistication than the often caricaturial elements would imply; misunderstood, these, over time become trivialized until they … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged British caricature, Ebenezer Forrest, James Figg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

back to biz: chasing the long beards

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Dave

The election is over and the war goes on. Electronic warfare and remote control combat is and will continue to be a big business both for military and civilian application. Simply, its technology war to stay ahead of the competition … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Glenn Greenwald Guardian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, War on Terror | Leave a comment

2 minute warning

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dave

According to Nate Silver, there is approximately a one seventh chance of Romney getting the presidency. The statistical equivalent of being down by a field goal with three minutes to play. Maybe being down by a run with two outs … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, david axelrod, Groucho Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers Horse Feathers, Mitt Romney 2012, Nate Silver pollster, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sergei Eisenstein, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

repackaging the old

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

This is a re-pack theme article, worthy of the Wailing Wall beseech-me and lamentation category of hand-wringing and naval gazing that is a regular feature of the Israel press. A staple of subtle invidious comparison and its presentation as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alex de Toqueville, American Jewish Committee, Barack Obama 2012, Charles Paul Landon, Greek Icarus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Twain, Mitt Romney 2012, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Reform Judaism America | Leave a comment

monkey do : the banana builders

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Dave

What if monkeys descended from us and not vice-versa. Devolution or evolution? It seems to be the case that millions of monkeys typing for millions of years would type zilch. Not even a normal sentence of 40 characters. Not even … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin monkeys, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Daniel Dennett, herb terrace, james marsh project nim, Lucas van Valckenborch, Nim the monkey, Nin the monkey, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, project nim, Tower of Babel | Leave a comment

agitated realms beyond melancholy

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

The long arc of hereticism. Modernism and baggage of hereticism it bring with it, the deep sack of neuroses festering sometimes into the outbreaks of pathology and brilliance often equally and simultaneously, is today, a sort of anguished repudiation; reactions … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Allen Ginsberg, Benjamin Lazier, Cervantes, Friedrich Schiller, Gabriel Josipovici, Gershom Scholem, Giotto di Bordone, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Hermann Cohen, Isaac Newton, Jakob Boehme, Jose Clemente Orozco Ortiz, Karl Barth, Leo Strauss, Marcel Duchamp, Parcelsus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Quakerism, Rabelais, Stanley Hauerwas, the Pietists, William Blake | Leave a comment

disability lack of assurance

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dave

The central disability for most writers of history, as of poetry, drama, and fiction, is probably bewilderment and anxiety in the loss of old landmarks , and the overturn of long-accepted truths. They are stunned by the rapidity, multiplicity, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged D.H. Lawrence, F.R. Leavis, Henry David Thoreau, James Cameron Avatar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Neo Rauch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rudyard Kipling, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

keeping hansel and gretel on a short leash

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Dave

They exist. And we know that this invisible architecture of the labyrinth can be very real and almost impossible to get out of. In the mythical Greek tale, Icarus was able to fly out on some crafted wings, but still … Continue reading →