History of the Future

History of the Future, HIST 1510 Dalhousie University, Winter Term Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:25; Thursdays 4:00-5:25

[historyofthefuture]

The future includes...old punks playing old punk.

[introspectivepoet]

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via introspectivepoet)

[gameraboy]

Elektro, the Westinghouse Moto-Man at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Elektro stood seven feet tall and weighed just under 300 pounds. Photo via the NYPL.

[mashable]

Christine Jorgensen was the first transgender celebrity in America.

[edithshead]

[How can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.

Thomas More Utopia (1516)

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[bladerunnergifs]

[midcenturymodernfreak]

City of the Future | Design: Norman Bel Geddes, “Magic Motorways” from GM’s Futurama

Entrance to the General Motors’ Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940. The exhibit attracted nearly 25 million people. - Via: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

[just-another-book-review]

“Have you no respect for the past? For What was thought and believed by your foremothers?” “Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them-and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman  (via just-another-book-review)

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[overwhelminglysuccinct-blog]

We are forever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

Aldous Huxley (via overwhelminglysuccinct)

[historyofthefuture]

"Black Destroyer": The Canadian Origins of American Science Fiction 

[explore-blog]

A woodcut map of Thomas More’s Utopia, from Umberto Eco’s survey of history’s greatest imaginary lands.

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