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pepys: royal ambivalence
Samuel Pepys’s diary: the long and the short and curlies of Restoration England in all its glories of sex, scandal,fires, plagues, naval disasters and marital discords. His diary spared no one, least of all, himself…. The general informality of government … Continue reading
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guess whose coming to dinner?
Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, August Sander, cannibalism, James Hilton, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Verelst, Lawrence H. Keeley, Lord of the Flies, margaret bourke-white, Nicholas Wade, Sigmund Freud, Steven Pinker, Thomas Hobbes, William Golding
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history undone:android basterds
A vision of the primeval past wandering out of an imaginary forest of pre-historic times, lost in quirk of time. Yes, its the same notorious auroch found in the cave of Lascaux in southern France. The ferocious wild ancestor of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Constantine, allan hall, auroch cattle, bobby sands, Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, eric vogelin, ernst haekl, fountain of life program, Francis Galton, Friedrich Nietzsche, joel whitebook, katie drummond, Lascaux Cave, lutz and heinz heck, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Michel Houlebecq, Oswald Spengler, paul theroux, Sigmund Freud, simon de bruxelles, the island of lost souls movie, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hobbes
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WITHOUT A NET
One false move and a glorious human pyramid will land ingloriously in the middle of the Grand Canal in Venice. This gymnastic feat was performed by fifty men, of the Castello and San Nicolo quarters of the city, atop two … Continue reading
JANE AUSTEN “UNAWARES”: Spontaneous Dislike As A Virtue
“Austen’s comedy participates in the Western tradition of komos –that is, comedy as a revelry in mischief. Liberated from what Charles Lamb calls “the burden of a perpetual moral questioning,” Austen’s mischievous humor specializes in truths uncongenial to the sentimentally-based … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Ben H. Winters, Charles Lamb, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David M. Buss, David Miall, David Oately, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Jenkins, Emma Hamilton, Emma Thompson, G.W. Lewes, George Lewes, Heather Jackson, Horace Walpole, Ian Watt, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Keith Oately, Lady Emma Hamilton, Laura Viera Rigler, Liz Wong, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, P.D. James, Pamela Mooman, R.W. Chapman, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Sarah Siddons, Seth Grahame-Smith, Sigmund Freud, Sonny Liew, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Rowlandson, Vera Nazarian, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson
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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED
The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alhadeff, Bill Casselman, Christopher Columbus, Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Father Labat, Gericault, Hannibal Lecter, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Lenin, Marco Polo, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel de Montaigne, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Nicolas Poussin, Osamu Fukutani, Othello and Desdemona, Restoration France, Robinson Crusoe, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Hobbes, Tim White Cannibalism, Voltaire, William Dafoe, William Shakespeare
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Snow White Tweets and Seven Gullible Children
British writer Caryl Churchill’s ten minute playlet ”Seven Jewish Children”( 7JC) is an artistic achievement that has multiple interpretations. It is art imposed over a political and religious context whereby the audience is drawn into the relationship between church, state, and … Continue reading
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