Deconstructing 194X, Part I of X
Quote 1 …only revolutions offer up spontaneous futures like 194X, and usually at the cost of great memory loss – heads must roll in order to usher in Véndemiaire, the Continue Reading →
Category Archives: History
Weekend 189.0 (July 4th)
(1) Tacita Dean Reflects on Time (WSJ) (2) Walt Disney and the Founding Mouse (3) The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture: In our age of online view counts and retweets, Continue Reading →
Weekend 175.2
“Decaying and dilapidated architecture resonates as loss, as evidence of the irreversible passage of time, yet architectural ruins emanate past grandeur.” — Daniel Worden, On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of Continue Reading →
Weekend 166.0
(1) Ed Ruscha “Standard Station” (1a) On the Road With Painter Ed Ruscha “The 73-year-old, Los Angeles-based Mr. Ruscha is known for adding cryptic phrases to his austere landscapes of Continue Reading →
Resplendent
The blogger with many visions™ is thawing. I just finished The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis. This book is more than a dry historical reprint; it is a graphic re-telling Continue Reading →
Mystery Solved: Why Obama crated Sir Winston
How Obama Thinks While the senior Obama called for Africa to free itself from the neocolonial influence of Europe and specifically Britain, he knew when he came to America in Continue Reading →
Weekend 148.4 (Holiday Perils)
“According to William Knox, one of Germain’s undersecretaries, his lordship was on his way to the country when he stopped by the office to sign his mail and was reminded Continue Reading →
Weekend 144.0 (July 4th)
(1) Make your own Playmobil® flash drive …when all of a sudden I found the one true sign that God wants me to quit my job, massacre Playmobil® men and Continue Reading →
Waning trust…
Mead’s argument in God and Gold is bunk because it assumes the public has trust in government. “Historian Niall Ferguson estimates that the British national debt as a percentage of Continue Reading →
More redcoats
“To the British rank-and-file there was nothing novel about being a solider. The harsh life was their way of life. They carried themselves like soldiers. They had rules, regulations, and Continue Reading →