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Tag Archives: W.B. Yeats
snap crackle and popping the con game
Can we shun a linear narrative, that narcotic like pacifier marked by its insistence, frequency and heavy dosage 7/24 in favor of a collage of episodes and impressions which means, by extension, a personal engagement with subculture. This also implies … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, corey ogilvie, Donald Kuspit, Edmund White, Friedrich Nietzsche, fritz zuber-buhler, gene franks, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jonathan McIntosh, occupy wall street, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin
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falcons: separating the emperor from the kings
Thirteenth-century monarchs were not expected to be accomplished writers, much less scientists, so it is fairly extraordinary that Frederick the Great himself wrote the book that is regarded as the first work of modern zoology: Of the Art of Hunting … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged beniamino inserra, carlo trabia, casey a. wood, Eugene Delacroix, eugene fromentin, f. marjorie fyfe, falconry, frederick II, Frederick the Great, h.t. ryall engraver, james howe art, malcolm fleming esq., michael scott astrologer, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Edwin Landseer, W.B. Yeats
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the ghost in the machine
Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Alan Turing, B.F. Skinner, Bill gates, Charles Darwin, cyborgs, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, eugenics, gilbert ryle, hugh loebner, kevin warwick, Lady Gaga, Lev Grossman, raymond kurzweil, Rene Descartes, robotic technology, the singularity, transhumanism, transhumanist clubs, W.B. Yeats
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postponing utopia: degeneracy as ideal
There is a relationship between memory and a participatory emancipation and an equally strong connection with forgetting, loss of memory and enslavement and subjugation. George Orwell asserted that individuals who lack the capability for remembrance are defenseless in confronting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Constantine, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, P.G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Salvadore Dali, Stephen Schwartz, tim robbins, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin
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knowing the dancer from the dance
In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapman Shadow of Night, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Divine Comedy, Dr. John Dee, Frances Yates, Francesco Giorgi, George Gower, Hans Eworth, John Dee, John Dowland, Marlowe Doctor Faustus, Mary Queen of Scots, Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, William Blake, William Butler Yeats
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ANGLING FOR LOVE: There’s A Memory On The End Of That Hook
(Ted )Hughes’s love of fishing was learned growing up in Yorkshire, but it became “a kind of metaphor for the creative act,” says Foss.”This idea of pulling something out of the darkness, into the light of consciousness.” ….He was an … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Hartry, Arthur Koestler, David Wallechinsky, Ehor Boyanowsky, G. Lehmann, Irving Wallace, James V. McConnell, M.C. Escher, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Roberts, Paul Quarrington, Rachel Foss, Robert Nye, Robert Thompson, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Tim Cornwell, W.B. Yeats
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11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE
First of all, should we begin by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading
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Tagged Dalton Trumbo, Dr. Marcus Hawel, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gary Tillery, Jay Winter, Jens Reich, Jerry Rubin, John Lennon, John Milton, Kathe Kollwitz, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Marcus Hawel, Martin Jay, Max Horkheimer, Otto Dix, Peter Kollwitz, R.D. Laing, Rex Murphy, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Stark, Theodor Adorno, Tom Hanks, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin, White Poppy Coalition, Yoko Ono
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REAL LOVE: A KARMA of MILK and HONEY
All my little plans and schemes pass like some forgotten dream. Seems that all I really was doing was waiting for you. Just like little girls and boys playing with their little toys. Seems like all we really were doing … Continue reading
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Tagged Carson McCullers, Charles Dickens, Eliot Mintz, Haynes King, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jacob Needleman, James Moore, Jan van Eyck, John Lennon, Kate Bush, Pablo Picasso, Paul McCartney, Rembrandt, Rene Magritte, Sir James Fraser, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, Yoko Ono
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