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“About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and could not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence. Here was the

XIII. The Trap of the White Sphinx
“We emerged from the Palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as far

XII. In the Darkness
“I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework. It lay very high

XI. The Palace of Green Porcelain
“Now, indeed, I seemed in a worse case than before. Hitherto, except during my night’s anguish at the loss of the Time Machine, I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries. Hitherto I had merely thought myself

X. When Night Came
That Great Pause
“It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow up the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached color of the worms and things one sees preserved in

IX. The Morlocks
“So far as I could see, all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley. From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings, endlessly varied in material and style, the same clustering thickets of evergreens, the same

VIII. Explanation
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“As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the...

VII. A Sudden Shock
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“A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but, like children they would soon stop examining me, and wander away after some other toy.

VI. The Sunset of Mankind
Fresh Air
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“In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. Then he turned to the two others who were following him an

V. In the Golden Age
Grip the Lever
“I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it’s

IV. Time Traveling
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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush

III. The Time Traveler Returns
The thing the Time Traveler held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. And now I must be explicit, for this that follows—unless

II. The Machine
Digital Concerns
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The Time Traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His pale grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent...

I. Introduction
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The State is almost universally considered an institution of social service. Some theorists venerate the State as the apotheosis of society; others regard it as an amiable, though often inefficient, organization for achieving social ends; but almost all regard it as...

Anatomy of the State: What the State Is Not
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Man is born naked into the world, and needing to use his mind to learn how to take the resources given him by nature, and to transform them (for example, by investment in "capital") into shapes and forms and places where the resources can be used for the satisfaction...

Anatomy of the State: What the State Is
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What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence. The death of a State can come about in two major ways: (a) through conquest by another State, or (b) through revolutionary overthrow by its own subjects—in...

Anatomy of the State: What the State Fears
What the State fears
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As Bertrand de Jouvenel has sagely pointed out, through the centuries men have formed concepts designed to check and limit the exercise of State rule; and, one after another, the State, using its intellectual allies, has been able to transform these concepts into...

Anatomy of the State: How the State Transcends Its Limits
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Once a State has been established, the problem of the ruling group or "caste" is how to maintain their rule.7 While force is their modus operandi, their basic and long-run problem is ideological. For in order to continue in office, any government (not simply a...

Anatomy of the State: How the State Preserves Itself
Anatomy of the State
Since the territorial area of the earth is divided among different States, inter-State relations must occupy much of a State's time and energy. The natural tendency of a State is to expand its power, and externally such expansion takes place by conquest of a territorial

Anatomy of the State: How States Relate to One Another
Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)
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Just as the two basic and mutually exclusive interrelations between men are peaceful cooperation or coercive exploitation, production or predation, so the history of mankind, particularly its economic history, may be considered as a contest between these two principles.

Anatomy of the State: History as a Race Between State Power and Social Power
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Faust actively engages with all of human history leading up to Goethe’s own time, including that of Classical Greece, the Middle Ages, the Enlightment, and Romanticism. The poem critiques medieval culture and the Enlightenment rather severely.

Faust: Introduction
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After a prelude set in a theater, where a production of Faust is to be staged, as well as a prologue in heaven, where the devil Mephistopheles declares to the Lord his intention of tempting the great scholar Heinrich Faust to damnation, the play opens on a narrow study.

Faust: Summary
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Summary and analysis of Faust from Prelude to Part 1: Witch's Kitchen

Faust: Summary & Analysis
Summary and analysis of Faust from Part 1: Street to Part 1: Gretchen's Room

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued)
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Summary and analysis of Faust from Part 1: Martha's Garden to Part 1: Night: Open Fields

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued II)
Summary and analysis of Faust from Part 1: Prison to Part 2: Act 2: A High-Vaulted, Narrow Gothic Room (Faust’s Study 4)

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued III)
Summary and analysis of Faust from Part 2: Act 2: Laboratory to Part 2: Act 4: The Anti-Emperor’s Tent

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued IV)
Summary and analysis of Faust from Part 2: Act 2: A Broad Landscape to Part 2: Act 5: Mountain Gorges

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued V)
Is That Clear?
Hume divides all objects of human reason into two different kinds: Relation of Ideas & Matters of Fact. Hume divides all propositions into one of another of these two categories. This division into two is Hume's fork.

Hume's Fork
Pride and Pleasure
Human Error
It is proper to make some limitations to the general system, that all agreeable objects, related to ourselves, by an association of ideas and impressions, produce pride, and disagreeable ones, humility: these limitations are derived from the very nature of the subject.

Limitations of this System
System Error
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Rousseau begins The Social Contract with the words: “Men are born free, yet everywhere are in chains.” From this provocative opening, he goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the “chains” of civil society suppress the natural birthright of man.

Men are born free, yet everywhere are in chains.
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The Social Contract
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Animal Farm is a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in the form of an animal fable, Animal Farm allegorizes the rise to power of the dictator Joseph Stalin.

Animal Farm
A universal system of social insurance financed by the state with contributions made by employers and employees from their pay. A flat-rate basic (subsistence) payment would be made to protect people not working through sickness, unemployment or old age.

The Beveridge Report, 1942
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Labour Party Campaign Leaflet, 1945
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The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

1984
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The first section of the Manifesto also states that Fluxus intends to purge the world of such other symptoms of “bourgeois sickness” as intellectual, professional, and commercialized culture. In one letter, Maciunas declares that “Fluxus is anti-professional.”

Fluxus: Magazines, Manifestos, Multum in Parvo
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Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.

1776: (Paine) Common Sense
George Maciunas, Manifesto, 1963
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When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence day, or the fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defense against the rain …

Where I Lived and What I lived For
Bows and Arrows
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected …

The Manifesto
In His Own Words - Theodore John Kaczynski
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James Gallien had driven five miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaskan dawn. A rifle protruded from the young man's pack, but he looked friendly enough …

Death of an Innocent
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I’ve spent a lot of time considering the art of Hélio Oiticica. I’ve looked at his work for years, vaguely modeling certain gestures of my own in relation to specific objects he made, and events he staged.

Double Layers by Tom Burr – One Hélio
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Kiko Kostadinov made a particular coat. He spent time considering my art, the way I apply pieces of clothing, often my own, to structures, and the specific way I pin those pieces in place, enunciating that exact instance.

Double Layers by Tom Burr – Two Kiko
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OTTO958

XIII. The Trap of the White Sphinx

XII. In the Darkness

XI. The Palace of Green Porcelain

X. When Night Came

That Great Pause

IX. The Morlocks

VIII. Explanation

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VII. A Sudden Shock

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VI. The Sunset of Mankind

Fresh Air

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V. In the Golden Age

Grip the Lever

IV. Time Traveling

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III. The Time Traveler Returns

II. The Machine

Digital Concerns

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I. Introduction

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Studio Beanie - Brown

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Anatomy of the State: What the State Is Not

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Anatomy of the State: What the State Is

NTS Radio 10.02.21

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Anatomy of the State: What the State Fears

What the State fears

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Anatomy of the State: How the State Transcends Its Limits

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Anatomy of the State: How the State Preserves Itself

Anatomy of the State

Anatomy of the State: How States Relate to One Another

Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

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Anatomy of the State: History as a Race Between State Power and Social Power

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Faust: Introduction

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Faust: Summary

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Faust: Summary & Analysis

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued)

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Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued II)

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued III)

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued IV)

Faust: Summary & Analysis (continued V)

Is That Clear?

Hume's Fork

Pride and Pleasure

Human Error

Limitations of this System

System Error

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Men are born free, yet everywhere are in chains.

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The Social Contract

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Still from the 1954 animated film of Orwell’s Animal Farm.

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Animal Farm

The Beveridge Report, 1942

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Labour Party Campaign Leaflet, 1945

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1984

Big Brother is Watching YOU, 1984

Fluxus: Magazines, Manifestos, Multum in Parvo

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