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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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tomorrow: not rotating on the great cosmic wheel
The modern future was born, according to one precise dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440 in which he set out to predict the blissful state of human … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Camille Flammarion, Francis Bacon, Futurology, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist, Saint Augustine, Voltaire Micromegas
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have utopia will travel
and to the nightmare. Dissatisfied with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become. Time, though, seems to have darkened out utopian visions in more ways than one…. For nearly two … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Francis Godwin Man in the Moone, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato, Plato and Diogenes, Plato Republic, Sir Thomas More
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diogenes: a dog’s life
Diogenes. And so he lived. Like a dog some said, because he cared nothing for privacy and other human conventions, and because he showed his teeth and barked at those whom he disliked. Now he was lying in the sunlight, … Continue reading
diogene: shining a light
At Corinth, in Greece, there lived a wise man whose name was Diogenes. Men came from all parts of the land to see him and hear him talk. But wise as he was, he had some very queer ways.He slept … Continue reading
dogging it out: every doge has their day
Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic. He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a … Continue reading
a few inherent problems with reality
UFO’s. Context is everything… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) MAGAZINE COVER OF THE MONTH: summer, 1992, issue of “UFO Universe” magazine. please note that this astonishing photograph of an interplanetary unidentified flying object alien spacecraft from outer space itself … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Art Chantry Instant Litter, Arthur Rackham, inception movie, lee harvey oswald, Plato, plato allegory of the cave, playboy magazine, space needle in seattle, The Tea Party, UFO Universe magazine
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theatre of the union: logos, pathos & a dog called sputnik
Do we call the Obama speech, his state of the union address, a seizing of the Sputnik moment. We have had Minsky moments, but a Sputnik moment? Or is this just another example of those pointy headed white intellectuals lecturing … Continue reading
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Tagged Anderson Cooper, Ari Fleischer, Aristotle, Byron York, David Gergen, Douglas Brinkley, Elizabeth Maupin, Jacques Ranciere, Jimm Lasser, Kubrick, Matt Taibbi, Obama, Obama State of the Union, Peter Aldhous, Plato, Stanley Kubrick
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NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System
“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Aristophanes, Bacchus, Baudelaire, Brian Arkins, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, Cornelius De Vos, Goldman Sachs, Greek debt crisis, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lord Byron, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis The Big Short, Oscar Wilde, Peter Paul Rubens, Plato, Seneca, Socrates, Thorsten Hasenkamm
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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS
“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, C.Douglas Lummis, Carl Jung, Cervantes, Charles Nodier, Don Quixote, Erasmus Darwin, F.W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Gérard de Nerval, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Gerog Buchner, Godfrey Reggio, Gregory Corso, Henry Fuseli, Jack Kerouac, Keith Moon, Keith Moon The Who, Ken Russell Gothic, Levi Asher, Michel Foucault, Niccolo Paganini, Philipe Pinel, Plato, Plato Republic, Quasimodo, R.D. Laing, Rene Descartes, Richard Dadd, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sam Fuller Shock Corridor, Shakespeare, Socrates, Stephen A. Diamond, Victor Hugo, William Blake, Willianm Burroughs
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