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Chamberlain’s Colorful Mural or The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man

Hey,  so I’m trying again. I just did this post and then I lost it due to internet outage. .. boo.  Let’s see what I can recreate. Hey, I’m back.  I want to look at another turn of the century … Continue reading

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All the Pretty Machines: democracy by epidermalization; rule by expert machinists

I have to confront that in my suggestion that we consider childhood as analogous and corollary to machines  (and in the eyes of scientists, houses), my leanings toward the machine as an intimate of childhood in turn-of-the-century America’s narratives might … Continue reading

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Sully: Children as Mediators to Our Black Ghosts

At the foundation of my exploration is a reconciling or at least a determined desire to deal with rather than pretend away 19th century notions of childishness and childhood as being on par with/synonymous with/ even occupying the space of … Continue reading

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