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feneon: tweet tweet, he’s got you beat
If Felix Feneon were alive today, he would be the king of the tweet, the master of the micro-blog. Feneon was a Belle Epoque anarchist and dandy with great artistic sensitivity. After avoiding prison through his silver tongued refutation of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Camille Plateel, Felix Feneon, George Orwell, George Seurat, James Joyce, Paul Signac
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assault on english
…The deadening influence that official jargon can exert upon thought was a topic that preoccupied George Orwell. … In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he recounted dramatically how a government in control of all media of communication can and will so degrade … Continue reading
still more george
by Art Chantry: david pearson’s design for the new penguin books edition of george orwell’s “1984”. it’s beyond brilliant!
waugh: enjoying the little box
Phantom voices.Evelyn Waugh was a strange bird: the sort of upper class British snobbism that has been washed away; the reactionary conservative with an almost paranoid fear of the “other” with particular emphasis on Jews, who, based on his own … Continue reading
just like the first time
Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Derrais Carter, George Orwell, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey Hunter The Searchers, John Ford The Searchers, John Wayne The Searchers, Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, Len a Dunham, Nicholas Yanes, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Rogan Kersh Wake Forest, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history
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“something sweet about life”
An argument in favor of reviving common sense…. Someone once mentioned to Dr. Samuel Johnson a certain person who claimed to see no distinction between virtue and vice. To which Johnson replied: “If he does really think that there is … Continue reading
reviving common sense
The decline of common sense. And why we might wish to revive it. …Prideful people, understandably, dislike serving on juries, for common sense is a fierce humbler of pride and egotism. It tells the person with a theory that they … Continue reading
The decline of common sense
Common sense is usually said to be sturdy, but in fact it has been faring badly ever since the scientific revolution began. It is plain, common sense declared in those days, that the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong, said … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Common Sense, Copernicus, David Bordwell, David Linfield US Embassy Cairo, Egypt Salafists, Elsa Lanchester, Galileo Galilee, George Orwell, Hekma television channel, Henrik Ibsen, John Farrow, Jonathan Latimer, Mohammed's trial film, Naked City film, Ray Milland, The Big Clock 1948, The Ultras White Knights, US Embassy Cairo, Wesam Abdel-Wareth
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from strength to strength
C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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