Tag Archives: Bertrand Russell

DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Dave

The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading →

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KARL POPPER & SEEING IS BELIEVING: INDUCTION,DEDUCTION and SEDUCTION

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Dave

” Well, I don’t think the bridge is all that immediate, but I do think you could develop a theory of art according to which art is a method of creating responses.( Karl ) Popper once said or wrote that … Continue reading →

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CATCHING THE MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dave

“I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. … Continue reading →

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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Dave

“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading →

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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Dave

“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading →

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THE ANDROGYNOUS STRAIN

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Dave

“…if we conceive the world in that vast extension you give it, it is impossible that man conserve himself therein in this honorable rank, on the contrary, he shall consider himself along with the entire earth he inhabits as in … Continue reading →

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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Dave

The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading →