Jonathon Keats
Journalist and Critic at Freelance
experimental philosopher | artist | critic | fabulist | journalist [email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Jonathon Keats |A Dragonfly
Working as a merchant in 16th century Antwerp, Joris Hoefnagel saw the world through the medium of trade. He encountered luxurious objets d’art crafted with exotic wood and shell. But his eyes were drawn most of all to natural history specimens he considered to be God’s own creations. Over several decades, he rendered them in watercolor on parchment or vellum. He called his collection The Four Elements, associating mammals with earth, birds with air, and fish with water.
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Jonathon Keats
On October 15, 1924, André Breton published a manifesto that was as notable for its belligerence as its egotism.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
forbes.com | Jonathon Keats
It’s high noon at the Museum of Modern Art. On a screen in a darkened theater, the hands of a clock converge on the number twelve. Cinephiles will recognize this moment as the climax of a 1952 Western starring Gary Cooper. Viewers who linger may subsequently identify scenes from movies such as Mommie Dearest and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Each clip focuses on a timepiece indicating the current hour and minute in Manhattan.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
forbes.com | Jonathon Keats
In 1781, a French clergyman named Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed to have discovered the ancient Book of Thoth while attending a stylish salon in Paris. Like many eighteenth century intellectuals, Court de Gébelin was obsessed with the occult wisdom of pharaonic Egypt, traces of which were seen in the excavations of colonial archaeologists. From statuary to sarcophagi, every plundered object appeared to be numinous, but nobody knew the meaning.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
forbes.com | Jonathon Keats
Solomon was acclaimed as the wisest of kings. According to medieval legend, his wisdom was most strenuously tested by a peasant whose rude appearance was the distinguished monarch’s opposite. “Marcolf was short, stocky and course,” according to one version of the story, published in Nuremburg in 1487. “His head was large, his brow ruddy and wrinkled, his ears hairy and drooping to his cheeks.”But what really made Marcolf stand out in Solomon’s court was his knack for debate.
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"Jonathon challenges us to look at the assumptions built into our markets, democracies and technologies, and seems to do it in ways that seem abstract at the time, but end up prefiguring political or cultural issues years or decades before they erupt." https://t.co/dMDcG92CuC