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Tag Archives: Jules Verne
promise them anything
Birds entrails, the stars in the heavens, crystal balls: people have resorted to all these and more in an effort to foretell the future. Today of course, with business have market capitalizations in the billions, there are no soothsayers in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Charles Mackay Popular Delusions, Condorcet, Daniel Bell, Faith Popcorn, Herman Kahn, James Canton, James Surowiecki Wisdom of Crowds, John Naisbitt, Jules Verne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malthus, Mark Penn, Nouriel Roubini
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the future: misleading desires for permanence
The future is a relic, and industry and a myth. For all our scientific prognostications, do we know any more about it than the average Zoroastrian? …After Louis Sebastien Mercier passed into the dustbin of history, a new breed of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Auguste Comte, John Gast painter, Jules Verne, LOuis Sebastien Mercier L'an 2440, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist
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The Eden-ites
The Garden of Eden. The first Utopia. Throughout time people have gotten impatient about waiting for the rapture; dabbled in nihilism to prod the redemption; in general, a complete dissatisfaction with the world as it is leading to fervent imaginings … Continue reading
CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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