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malthus: not found at the love-in
There seems to be more to famine than a mere lack of food. Hunger is always at our door, even in an era like our own. Do people starve simply because there are too many of us? Or, is famine … Continue reading
malthus: specter at the feast
Thomas Robert Malthus. Hunger is always at the door, even in an era like our own. People still die of starvation. Do people starve because there are too many of us ? Or, is famine the necessary companion, the price … Continue reading
a tale of two tribes
Erik Erikson’s vision of a universal identity, the one all-human outlook that would somehow bind us together and sublimate violence into peaceful behaviour. Whether this was a universality attained by repressing peculiarity, a kind of synthetic layer built on a … Continue reading
political porn
…But the intellectual and philosophical criticism of the French monarchy during the French Revolution never compared in number with the pornographic novels and squibs. One of the most popular clandestine novels was Les Amours de Charlot et Toinette. It is … Continue reading
perfide manon: peace with the “petit collet”
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, and he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Prevost ventured back to France, and there was joined by … Continue reading
tasmania: breaking the immemorial monotony
…Inevitably, this forceful community, gradually spreading from its seashore settlements, came into contact with the elusive aborigines of the forest. It was known from the start that they existed. When Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived off the southeast coast in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abel Tasman Tasmania, Benjamin Duterreau, Captain Bligh the Bounty, captain cook, Francois Peron Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marion du Fresne French navigator, Nicholas Baudin explorer, Tasmania history, Tasmanian genocide, William Lanney
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who can like the highlands?
Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged David Hume, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jean Cocteau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Davies Bookshop
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day: nature and nurture at dawn
Eighteenth-century England and the circle of brilliant men around Josiah Wedgwood. Some were more eccentric than others. Even peculiar… Thomas Day made no great mark in the world beyond establishing an undisputed reputation for almost perfect eccentricity. His friends loved … Continue reading
day: doomed in duplicate
Josiah Wedgwood’s friends numbered some brilliant but odd types. Most are forgotten today. Thomas Day made no great mark in the world beyond establishing an undisputed reputation for almost perfect eccentricity… Thomas Day was even stranger than Erasmus Darwin, whom … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Esther Milnes, George Stubbs, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Bicknell, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton
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