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Tag Archives: Pieter Bruegel
A Paradise not what its made out to be
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Only now perhaps, in our present new age of folly, can its meaning be made clear. Today we take a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain de la Roche, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dante Divine Comedy, Dante Inferno, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Hieronymous Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Laurinda Dixon, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler, Tom Schiller
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black plague & neurotic gloom: no belief no deny
Skepticism and timorous uncertainty marked the second half of the fourteenth century.The generation that survived the plague could not believe, but did not dare deny. It groped toward the future, with one nervous eye always peering over its shoulder toward … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Defoe, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein the younger, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Wycliffe, Melissa Snell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sick House movie, Wat Tyler Uprising
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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?
According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune
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NOWHERE PEOPLE: STRANDED IN ''NOWHERESVILLE''
”A few years ago, I told an English professor (who regularly teaches Thomas More’s Utopia in his Renaissance literature courses) that I was preparing to give a paper at a conference of the Society for Utopian Studies. He asked me where the meeting was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anabaptists Munster, Brueghel, Charles Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus, Erhard Schoen, Erhard Schoen Muenster, Erhard Schon, Francis Bacon, Hans Holbein, Henri Pirenne, Jan of Leiden, Jan of Leyden, Martin Luther, Pieter Bruegel, Reginald Pole, Richard H. Robbins, Sir Thomas More, utopianism, Utopias, William Latimer
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AESTHETICS OF APPETITE:SHE PLUCK'D, SHE EAT
IIts the ontology of the appetite. Food as a metaphysical concept. And its consumption to the point of gluttony as an aesthetic. It is an emotionally charged symbol that dates from the Biblical Genesis and humanity’s fall from grace. Heck, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Jonson, Bill Clinton, Dame Dorothy Sayers, Dante Alighieri, Deborah Shuger, Georges Bataille, Gluttony, Hieronymous Bosch, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Joe O'Connor, John Milton, Marco Ferrera, Mario Romano, Michael Pollan, Milton Paradise Lost, Nathan's Famous, National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, Philip Fernandez-Armesto, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Regina M. Schwartz, Takeru Kobayashi, William Kerrigan
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LITERALLY EATING OUR SPIRITS
Since ancient times, when sickly children were left outside to die from exposure, euthanasia has been practiced, debated or condemned by various societies. Much of it involves around shortage of food and elitist thinking such as the economist Malthus. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Al Pacino, Alex Carrel, Darwin, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, Elise Erhard, George Orwell, Goebbels, Hannah Arendt, Henry Kissinger, Hieronymous Bosch, jack Kevorkian, Jay Lamonica, John Trudell, Malthus, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Robert Lifton, Robert Proctor, W.R. Lennox
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