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#US People arrive for a hearing with ousted FBI director James Comey before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Photo @b_smialowski: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
Brilliant from @AP_Images: "The Beacon." #ComeyDay: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 8 June 2017
Great echo of the Trump thumb/index Paris withdrawal shot in Rose Garden. And wasn't today just as much about climate change? Photo @AP #ComeyDay: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 8 June 2017
Former FBI director James Comey is shown at the beginning of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. Photo Alex Brandon: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 8 June 2017
Dead silence here in Brooklyn bar as patrons watch Comey's testimony: image via Steve Peoples @sppeoples, 8 June 2017
Comey: Trump administration spread ‘lies, plain and simple': image via AP Images @AP_Images, 8 June 2017
#Comey is sworn in the glare of the hearing room lights made by @AP Photographer @alexbrandon: image via J David Ake @jdavidake, 8 June 2017
Media surround James Comey during his Senate testimony: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 June 2017
Our latest photos from James Comey's Senate testimony: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 June 2017
@AP Photographer@andyharnik’s high angle image as #Comey takes his seat today: image via J David Ake @jdavidake, 8 June 2017
Here's @AP's @andyharnik from the #ComeyHearing: image via Ken Thomas @KThomasDC, 8 June 2017
Former F.B.I. director James Comey takes his seat @ the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence witness table.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 8 June 2017
The public line has been growing since 6:30am... #ComeyHearing: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 8 June 2017
An enormous line stretches down the hall outside the room where James Comey will testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee. @andyharnik: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 8 June 2017
#ComeyHearings #ComeyDay Can't wait to see the tweets @realDonaldTrump fires off today: image via Nancy Walsh @snanook, 8 June 2017
“Those were lies, plain and simple”: James Comey opened his testimony with a direct shot at the White House: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 8 June 2017
The Marine at the West Wing door signifies @potus @realdonaldtrump is in the Oval Office. Shot taken as Comey hearing began.: image via Kelly O'Donnell @ KellyO, 8 June 2017
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The US #military budget is $601 billion, but #FlintWaterCrisis can not be fixed? so #wrong #onetoughnerd #trump: image via Rob @Unpersuaded112, 8 June 2017
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#Iraq Iraqis stand in line to receive food aid in western Mosul's Zanjili neighbourhood during #MosulOffensive Photo @KarimSahibAFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
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#Iraq A car lies abandoned in a ruined street in western #Mosul. By @alkiskon @reuterspictures: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 8 June 2017
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Former FBI director James Comey takes his seat at the beginning of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill #ComeyDay: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 8 June 2017
The US #military budget is $601 billion, but #FlintWaterCrisis can not be fixed? so #wrong #onetoughnerd #trump: image via Rob @Unpersuaded112, 8 June 2017
Ice cream in Doha
#Iraq Iraqis stand in line to receive food aid in western Mosul's Zanjili neighbourhood during #MosulOffensive Photo @KarimSahibAFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Iraq A car lies abandoned in a ruined street in western #Mosul. By @alkiskon @reuterspictures: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 8 June 2017
Syrian Democratic Forces launch their assault on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto 'capital' in Syria: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 June 2017
Syrian Democratic Forces launch their assault on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto 'capital' in Syria: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 June 2017
#India A man gets a shave from a barber while covered with a Barcelona football club flag in Mumbai. Photo @thisisindra: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#India A fisherman removes fish from a net from his early morning catch at a beach in Chennai. Photo @ArunsankarKrish #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Vietnam A factory worker takes a break at the Gia Lam factory in Hanoi. Photo Hoang Dinh Nam: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Philippines A SWAT operative searches a house after prisoners were freed by Islamist militants in Marawi City. Photo @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Myanmar People await news of their loved ones as rescuers work to pull bodies from the Andaman Sea after a military plane crashed. Photo @ye_aung_thu: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
SYRIA - Men cross a make-shift bridge passing under the original crossing destroyed during the ongoing conflict near Raqa. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Thailand Thai firemen work to put out embers after a residential fire in Phayathai district in Bangkok. @The Lilyfish: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Venezuela An unconscious activist is taken away by fellow demonstrators as they clash with riot police during a protest in Caracas. Photo @jbarreto74: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Venezuela An opposition activist hides behind a shield during clashes with riot police in Caracas. Photo @LuisRobayo: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#India A rickshaw puller sleeps on his rickshaw in the old quarters of New Delhi. Photo @Money_Sharma: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
#Qatar A man sells ice-cream at the popular Souq Waqif market, in Doha. Photo @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 June 2017
The originalstruggle for the hearts and minds of the middle class audience
On 1 November 1755, a great earthquake destroyed and devastated the capital city of the Kingdom of Portugal. Some sixty thousand inhabitants of Lisbon were killed. A shocked and outraged Voltaire published his Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, or Optimism. Earlier he had suggested misfortune might actually increase the good of mankind. Now, he rejected this sanguine view. The Lisbon catastrophe had convinced him of the folly of mindless optimism. The immediate evidence of so much human suffering was proof of the basic injustice of the universe.
Rousseau read Voltaire's poem and responded in a letter dated 18 August 1756, later titled Letter on Providence. In the letter he argued that there is no reason to doubt God's kindness, that people should blame only themselves for their misfortunes, because they, on their own, decide to settle in densely populated cities, the destruction of which by natural accidents should be expected to produce many victims. Rousseau's letter became widely known in Europe. It was the first of Rousseau's writings to be translated into Russian.
The country in which the revolution broke out was, therefore, by no means economically exhausted; it was rather merely an insolvent state with a rich middle class. The bourgeoisie gradually took possession of all the instruments of culture -- it not only wrote the books, it also read them, it not only painted the pictures, it also bought them. In the preceding century it had still formed only a comparatively modest section of the art and reading public, but now it is the cultured class par excellence and becomes the real upholder of culture. Most of Voltaire's readers already belong to this class, and Rousseau's almost exclusively... With Rousseau the wider classes of society, the petty bourgeoisie and the undifferentiated mass of the poor, the oppressed and the outlawed, found expression for the first time in literature... Rousseau is the first to speak as one of the common people, and to speak for himself when he is speaking for the people; the first to induce others to rebellion, because he is a rebel himself.
In 1755 Voltaire published his treatise, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men. Voltaire replied with a thank you note: I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it… No one has ever employed so much intellect to persuade men to be beasts. In reading your work one is seized with a desire to walk on all fours. However, as I have lost that habit for more than sixty years, I feel, unfortunately, that it is impossible for me to resume it…
On 1 November 1755, a great earthquake destroyed and devastated the capital city of the Kingdom of Portugal. Some sixty thousand inhabitants of Lisbon were killed. A shocked and outraged Voltaire published his Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, or Optimism. Earlier he had suggested misfortune might actually increase the good of mankind. Now, he rejected this sanguine view. The Lisbon catastrophe had convinced him of the folly of mindless optimism. The immediate evidence of so much human suffering was proof of the basic injustice of the universe.
Rousseau read Voltaire's poem and responded in a letter dated 18 August 1756, later titled Letter on Providence. In the letter he argued that there is no reason to doubt God's kindness, that people should blame only themselves for their misfortunes, because they, on their own, decide to settle in densely populated cities, the destruction of which by natural accidents should be expected to produce many victims. Rousseau's letter became widely known in Europe. It was the first of Rousseau's writings to be translated into Russian.
In another of his writings Rousseau disputed Hobbes' claim that people are naturally evil. In his copy of Rousseau's text, Voltaire wrote in the margin: A savage is fierce as much as a hungry wolf.
Over the years, the mutual distrust between the two was aggravated into an ongoing private quarrel inscribed in Voltaire's contemptuous marginal remarks on Rousseau's works. The second part of the Discourse on Inequality, for example, opens with the famous words: The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
What! Voltaire interjected on the margin of the page. Would those who planted, sowed, fenced, not be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor?
____What! Voltaire interjected on the margin of the page. Would those who planted, sowed, fenced, not be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor?
The country in which the revolution broke out was, therefore, by no means economically exhausted; it was rather merely an insolvent state with a rich middle class. The bourgeoisie gradually took possession of all the instruments of culture -- it not only wrote the books, it also read them, it not only painted the pictures, it also bought them. In the preceding century it had still formed only a comparatively modest section of the art and reading public, but now it is the cultured class par excellence and becomes the real upholder of culture. Most of Voltaire's readers already belong to this class, and Rousseau's almost exclusively... With Rousseau the wider classes of society, the petty bourgeoisie and the undifferentiated mass of the poor, the oppressed and the outlawed, found expression for the first time in literature... Rousseau is the first to speak as one of the common people, and to speak for himself when he is speaking for the people; the first to induce others to rebellion, because he is a rebel himself.
Arnold Hauser:The Social History of Art, Vol. III (1951)dead revolution / a handful of dung
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Shibakoen, Tokyo, Mar 2017: photo by Shin Noguchi, 21 March 2016
[Untitled, Thailand]: photo by Nakarin Teerapenun, 16 March 2016
[Untitled, Thailand]: photo by Nakarin Teerapenun, 16 March 2016
[Untitled, Thailand]: photo by Nakarin Teerapenun, 16 March 2016
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Salavakkam Village, TN CVC walk 461: photo by Mouhamed Moustapha, 26 July 2015
Salavakkam Village, TN CVC walk 461: photo by Mouhamed Moustapha, 26 July 2015
Salavakkam Village, TN CVC walk 461: photo by Mouhamed Moustapha, 26 July 2015
Salavakkam Village, TN CVC walk 461: photo by Mouhamed Moustapha, 26 July 2015
Salavakkam Village, TN CVC walk 461: photo by Mouhamed Moustapha, 26 July 2015
Salavakkam Village, TN CVC walk 461: photo by Mouhamed Moustapha, 26 July 2015
Untitled: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 26 May 2017
\Untitled: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 26 May 2017
Untitled: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 26 May 2017
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Twins: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 7 February 2017
Twins: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 7 February 2017
Twins: photo by Hillol Choudhury, 7 February 2017
Seville, Spain. May 2017.: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 16 May 2017
Seville, Spain. May 2017.: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 16 May 2017
Seville, Spain. May 2017.: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 16 May 2017
Seville, Spain, April 2017: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 30 May 2017
Seville, Spain, April 2017: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 30 May 2017
Seville, Spain, April 2017: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 30 May 2017
London, UK. May 2017 [Somerset House]: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 19 May 2017
London, UK. May 2017 [Somerset House]: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 19 May 2017
London, UK. May 2017 [Somerset House]: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 19 May 2017
Quito, Ecuador: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 29 May 2017
Quito, Ecuador: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 29 May 2017
Quito, Ecuador: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 29 May 2017
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