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have utopia will travel
and to the nightmare. Dissatisfied with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become. Time, though, seems to have darkened out utopian visions in more ways than one…. For nearly two … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Francis Godwin Man in the Moone, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato, Plato and Diogenes, Plato Republic, Sir Thomas More
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utopia: realms of Nowhere
Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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suspicious models of vision: invisible and anonymous
Like H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man where a scientist discovers a means of making himself invisible, and in the process becomes an insane murderer. Invisibility. Anonymity. Walter Benjamin insisted on the fundamental invisibility of the crowd in Baudelaire’s poetry of … Continue reading
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Tagged blackberry london riots, Charles Baudelaire, claude rains, Gilles Deleuze, graham harwood, gyges, H.G. Wells, Harry Houdini, Jean Leon Gerome, london riots 2011, Michel Foucault, Plato Republic, the invisible man, Walter Benjamin, William Etty
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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS
“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading
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