Tag Archives: Voltaire

voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Dave

“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading →

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odd couples

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

A secret drive to crave disgrace or an insane desire to please? … Louise Mignot, the daughter of Voltaire’s sister, had in 1738 married Monsieur Denis of the Commisariat Department, who died in 1744. Her uncle on the occasion of … Continue reading →

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Voltaire: passing nods from the Dauphine

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

Thievery begins at the top? The right of kings and card sharps. He was unhappy at Versailles. He wrote to Madame Denis complaining that he was bored to death by court society and the conversation of the great. ” I … Continue reading →

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cabaret voltaire: an arcade project

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Dada as just another shop, another boutique in the arcade? Dada put into question the myths surrounding originality, and the relationship of the artist to the category of “genius”. Dada suggested instead, or implied that everyone could be an artist, … Continue reading →

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sympathy for the unwashed: springtime for voltaire?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Voltaire. The name conjures up many associations. Intelligent, radical, revolutionary. But who really was Voltaire? …. He was not, as has been said,a profound thinker. He taught men to question every legend, every conventional idea transmitted to them by their … Continue reading →

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duck soup and poop

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Dave

It started off as what would be considered toy models. Ultimately, they contributed to the development of early industrial age machinery. At the time, there was a fad for the mechanical and his work almost qualifies to be in the … Continue reading →

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connectivity through form

Posted on June 11, 2011 by tai

Guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception Tai Carmen: “There is a special ratio that can be used to describe the proportions of everything from nature’s smallest building blocks, such as atoms, to the … Continue reading →

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Mystery of the Masons: part I

Posted on May 8, 2011 by tai

A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. There is an aesthetics of Masonry that in light of the Royal wedding of April 29, became more visually represented… Tai Carmen: Though Masonry is identical … Continue reading →

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alienating and liberating

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Dave

The art of Hollywood, or really the business of Hollywood is to dumb and trivialize any critical currents into marketable product. Absorption and coop-tion skills that dumb everything down into cheap neutral entertainment where meaningful content is parceled into bite-sized … Continue reading →

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Heresy on the Guest list: too darn hot

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Dave

Heresy has always had many faces. The classic division has always followed the Voltaire pattern of speaking  truth to power in order to be absorbed within the establishment, and accept the sacraments. Heresy has traditionally been seen as four faced: … Continue reading →

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