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L'anarchisme - 3 théoriciens (Proudhon, Bakounine, Kropotkine) / Politikon #7
youtu.beIn the French commune there is properly but one official functionary, namely, the Maire; and in New England we have seen that there are nineteen.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
His specialty was convincing each person that they had witnessed a near catastrophe.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Polis shows the clusters of opinion that exist and highlights statements that bridge them. This approach facilitates both consensus formation and a better understanding of the lines of division.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Christopher Pergolizzi
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Not only was "The Corsican Brothers" an enormous success, but the ghost's weird appearance was one of the most famous entrances in the history of the theatre.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Il tenait ma main dans la sienne, un grand homme chauve et un nez avec grosse moustache, il était dentiste dans la vie, soixante ans au bas mot, et pour un chef d'orchestre qui est encore dentiste, c'est beaucoup. — Burak, Polonais. Je suis dentiste mais je voulais être chef d'orchestre. — Personne ne vous comprend mieux que moi, lui dis-je, j'ai p
... See moreÉmile Ajar • Gros-Câlin (COLL BLEUE) (French Edition)
The heirs of Locke are, first Berkeley and Hume; second, those of the French philosophes who did not belong to the school of Rousseau; third, Bentham and the philosophical Radicals; fourth, with important accretions from Continental philosophy, Marx and his disciples.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
William of Occam, who held that ‘it is vain to do with more what can be done with less’.