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back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat
F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Battle of Adrianople, Bob Dylan, Charles Bernstein MOMA, F.P. Marinetti Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Marinetti, Futurist aesthetics, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isotta Fraschini car, Italian Fascism, Italy World War I, Kenneth Burke, Le Corbusier architect, Mussolini newspaper editor, Pierre Bourgeois, Rene Magritte, Sant' Elia futurist architect, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman
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cuddling in knole house
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) …The house on the cover of Iris Murdoch’s last novel is Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent. Knole House was the home of Vita Sackville-West, a writer and gardener, … Continue reading
liberal bias: in-conscience of a liberal
The quintessential bleeding heart liberal, the kind of perverse sensibility guided by blinders and unwilling and ineffective in bringing about meaningful change. The establishment liberal , who according to Joseph Conrad, was a “moralist who betrayed rather than revealed the … Continue reading
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Tagged a.j. cronin, Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, edward garnett, Ford Madox Ford, george elgar hicks, H.G. Wells, isadora Duncan, John Sloan, Joseph Conrad, L.S. Lowry, leon schalit, nick hubble, raymond duncan, ross mckibbon, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith, zinaida serebryakova
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men of property
Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading
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Tagged Adbusters, Arnold Bennett, attilio pusterla, edward garnett, Emma Goldman, galsworthy the silver box, giovacchino toma, giuseppe pellizza da volpedo, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, john galsworthy the pigeon, John Sloan, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, joseph heath rebel sell, mary cassatt, Naomi Klein, ralph mctell streets of london, thomas frank the baffler, Virginia Woolf
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montaigne’s soul daughters
Michel de Montaigne invented what can be termed the “personal essay” at the dawn of the seventeenth-century. It was seen quickly by Marie de Gournay that Montaigne’s disdain for logic and linear progression was part of a larger attack on … Continue reading
honky chateau
There is nothing like life in a dank chateau to promote, in a growing girl, a taste for literature. …. We grieve for many; not least we grieve for unhappy, solitary maidens so intelligent as to be misfits in ordinary … Continue reading
SANTA CLAUS EXCHANGE THEORY: No to Ho! Will The Circle be Unbroken?
Sexist Christmas advertising,and other rituals of discontent. why should Christmas be any different than the rest of the year? There is no holiday that seems to invoke the polarity and contradictory impulses that pits theological purity and the reality of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Betty Friedan, C.S. Lewis, Chloe Angyal, Dean Martin, Derrida, Dr. Devin Brown, Frank Loesser, Havelock Ellis, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Jean Genet, John Bingham, Judith Butler, Kate Harding, La Senza Cup Size Choir, Lena McQuade, Leslie Feinberg, Marie Bonaparte, Maya Brown, Nietzsche, Niki de Saint Phalle, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf
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