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Showing posts with label voltaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voltaire. Show all posts
17 Sept 2025

On the Politics of the Mob

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The angry mob confront the Monster (played by Boris Karloff)  in  Frankenstein  (dir. James Whale, 1931)   'Madness is something rare in...
29 Sept 2024

Of Gold and Iron Masks

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Poster design featuring:    1: Mask of Agamemnon   (c. 1550-1500 BC) [1]   2 The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) [2]  3: L'homme au masque d...
23 Aug 2020

The Study of Myth is an Occupation for Imbeciles

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Pop art prints by Amazon I. It's always worth remembering to whom Nietzsche dedicated the first edition of Human, All Too Hu...
19 Apr 2019

Easter with the Anti-Christ: (2019 Version)

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Eric Idle and Graham Chapman in The Life of Brian  (1979) I. Although Voltaire advised that we crush the Church and its vile supe...
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15 Jul 2018

In Memory of Hypatia

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Rachel Weisz as Hypatia in the 2009 film   Agora (dir. Alejandro Amenábar ) I. Hypatia: The Spirit of Plato and the Body of Aphr...
17 Apr 2018

On the Romantic Conception of Childhood

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Suffer little children and forbid them not -  for theirs is the  Kingdom of Heaven I. If there's one child in modern phil...
25 Jun 2014

Pessimism (In Affirmation of the Oncoming Train)

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Still from Broken Down Film (1985), by Osamu Tezuka  For details visit: michaelspornanimation.com Arguably, pessimism is no...
12 Nov 2013

Revolutions are so vieux jeu

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Image by party9999999 on deviantart.com Having just watched the latest depressing news out of Libya, I can only send a message...
27 May 2013

On Myth

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Henri Matisse: Icarus (1947) I recently heard someone point out that the wax holding Icarus's wings together would not have melte...