Tag Archives: Voltaire

foiled hopes

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Hume, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Peter Howson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Slavoj Zizek, Sokari Douglas Camp, The marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Wieland Schonied | Leave a comment

enlightenment by design: build a better world?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire | Leave a comment

enlightened unreason

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. This is our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought. It has persisted for over two centuries. This is a tradition which is bending against strains that challenge its hegemony. At what … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abbe Jean Maury, Denis Diderot, Francis Picabia, Immanuel Kant, Jean de La Harpe, jean huber, jean huber swiss painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Mel Ramos art, Peter Howson art, roberto matta, Santayana, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire | Leave a comment

a bolt of the volt

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Dave

Among the men of the Enlightenment Francois Marie Arouet, self-styled Voltaire, stands first. The acid skepticism, the faith in nature and science, the hatred of theologians and dogmamongers, all this had already been formulated when Voltaire was still a fashionable … Continue reading →

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hilltops to the sea

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Dave

The government implies the settlers relationship to the land exists only in a nominal sense, a legal and technical sense grounded in international law, and the larger sense of the international community and its administrative apparatus. A nominal sense for … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amona expulsion, aryeh eldad, Baruch Spinoza, Daniella Weiss, Illegal settlers Judea and Samaria, John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill On Liberty, Judea and Samaria Jews, Louise Bourgeois, Migron expulsion, prime minister olmert, Robert Mapplethorpe, Voltaire | Leave a comment

get rich quick : bubbles in biloxi

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Dave

He was brilliant. But he was something of a scoundrel. Some of the ideas were there that bore resemblance to John Maynard Keynes. Some of the ideas were there that resembled the classic stock swindle and Ponzi scheme, mortgage backed … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bernard Madoff, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Law, John Law Mississippi Bubble, John Maynard Keynes, Lady Catherine Senor, Lord Banbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montesquieu, Niall Ferguson, Philippe d'Orleans, Voltaire, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

mega millions for all

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave

John Law. He rescued France from ruin, then ruined her again by basing prosperity on credit with the famous Mississippi bubble. He showed us how the future could not work: today’s examples would be the tech bubble of 2000, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bretton woods system, John Law, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, joseph stieglitz, Lady Catherine Senor, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mississippi Bubble, Montesquieu, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Philiipe d'Orleans, Voltaire | Leave a comment

period productions

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Dave

The shock of the new. A trauma involving a break in the continuity of existence… Which Picasso? As great an impresario as he was a painter, Picasso in his lifetime had produced a whole repertory of artists bearing the same … Continue reading →

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are we playing in the same brand?

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dave

Watercolor paper is still apparently made much the way it has been since Duke of Berry let the ladies of the palace engage in the visual arts. That is, since Medieval times. Its mulched, pressed and literally hung out to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Arches Canson, Arches watercolor paper, Duc de Berry, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, napoleon the description of egypt, turner watercolors, Voltaire, voltaire complete works | Leave a comment

lets drink to that

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Dave

The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading →