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David Black
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Newcastle, The United Kingdom
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George Orwell, Raya Dunayevskaya, Gillian Rose, Philip K Dick,
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History Never Ended
By David Black In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, working at the Rand Corporation, wrote a policy paper for the US State Department entitled ‘The End of History?’ Published in National Interest magazine, it soon became a talking point amongst celebrants of the collapse of communism and was expanded into a best-selling book, The End of History … Continue reading "History Never Ended"
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The Expressionist and the Nazis GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director David Black Jul 26, 2025 In 1923, Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) directed the movie,The Treasure, which immediately established him as a leading light in the Austro-German ...more |
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Tripping Over History LSD Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracies David Black Jun 12 2026 In an article for Lobster magazine in November 2019 I posed a rhetorical question… ‘Is History a fiction? In postmodernist theory, historical ‘truth’ and ‘knowl ...more |
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“Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.”
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In History Today, January 2022, four historians were asked: When did Britain come closest to Revolution? Katrina Navickas, giving the most recent example - 179 years ago - wrote: ‘The year most likely to result in a revolutionary moment was 1839. Bre ...more |
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King Mob: The Negation and Transcendence of Art: Malevich, Schwitters, Hirst, Banksy, Mayakovsky, Situationists, Tatlin, Fluxus, Black Mask (WiseEbooks)
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“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.”
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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
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The Psychedelic Reading Group
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A reading group for those interested in non-fiction texts relating to psychedelic compounds, as well as cognitive phenomena associated with these. Tex ...more