> So you see, I claim that work in a duly ordered community should be made attractive by the consciousness of usefulness, by its being carried on with intelligent interest, by variety, and by its being exercised amidst pleasurable surroundings.
- #WilliamMorris quoted in
#LookingForward by #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel one of their #PareconBooks for thinking about a vision of a decent society. #Work #DecentWork
#decentwork #work #pareconbooks #RobinHahnel #MichaelAlbert #lookingforward #williammorris
> [We seek] a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all would be living in equality of condition and would manage their affairs #unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all--the realization at last of the meaning of the word #commonwealth.
- #WilliamMorris
https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/books/intro.htm
#williammorris #commonwealth #unwastefully
> ... to be happy one must delight like nature in mere profusion, in mere abundance, in making and doing things,.. one must not be among those that would have prayed in old times in some chapel of the Star, but among those who would have prayed under the shadow of the Green Tree, and on the wet stones of the Well, among the worshippers of natural abundance.
#Yeats #WilliamMorris #GreenTreeWetStones #GreenTreeWetWell #Abundance
#IdeasOfGoodAndEvil
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32884/pg32884-images.html#Page_70
#ideasofgoodandevil #abundance #greentreewetwell #greentreewetstones #williammorris #yeats
"The Green Tree and the Wet Stones of the Well"
#Yeats on how #WIlliamMorris was trying to replace the dead tree (the cross?) of one sort of Christianity with a #FaithOfAbundance came to mind while looking at this FB meme.
"May our common home overflow with life one again".
#PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi #OurCommonHome #Abundance
#CareOfCreation #WorldDayOfPrayer #Prayer
#prayer #worlddayofprayer #careofcreation #abundance #OurCommonHome #LaudatoSi #popefrancis #faithofabundance #williammorris #yeats
> You didn't come here from nowhere. There are reasons why you're here. Learn those reasons. Learn about the stuff that was buried because it was too experimental or embarrassing or inexplicable or uncomfortable or dangerous.
http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt
This is Brust all over. His sword-and-sorcery is steeped in the literary traditions of the most mannered of fantasy writers - but also in the utopian socialist politics of the likes of #WilliamMorris.
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I’ve always adored this pattern…..
RT @RatherGoodArt: Good morning - I hope you slept like a squid egg-stuffed sarcastic fringe head - I'm starting with ‘Acanthus’, William Morris, ink and pencil on paper, 1875. Available as a single card or as part of the William Morris Coellectio.
https://www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/william-morris-acanthus-greetings-card/
#williammorris https://t.co/RFbPSnEepx
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Baroness_Nichol/status/1660235930286931968
"April Showers Bring..." teableau for 05/01/23
#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #Flowers #Floral #Chamomile #Lavender #Harney&Sons #HerbalTea #VintageChina #WilliamMorris
#williammorris #VintageChina #herbaltea #harney #lavender #chamomile #floral #flowers #teacosy #teacozy #teableau #tea
Useless quote for 30 Apr:
"They had reached a wonderful facility of production, and in order to make the most of that facility they had gradually created (or allowed to grow, rather) a most elaborate system of buying and selling, which has been called the World-Market; and that World-Market, once set a-going, forced them to go on making more and more of these wares, whether they needed them or not."
~ William Morris, 1890
I stumbled upon this fantastic video on the #Victorian aesthetic movement from the Victoria and Albert Museum while prepping for class today. #Wilde #WilliamMorris #Pre-Raphaelite #PreRaphaelite #Rossetti #DGR
#Victorian #Wilde #williammorris #pre #preraphaelite #rossetti #dgr
The design I have achieved here, through some #camera trickery and filter effects, is quite #libertylondon don’t you think?
Even a touch of #williammorris about it! #photooftheday #365 #251
Credit the artist #debrahall
#camera #libertylondon #williammorris #photooftheday #debrahall
#NewsFromNowhere Haven't read this for a while, but as it was the anniversary of the birth of #WilliamMorris yesterday it seemed like a good time to revisit. As far as time traveling sci-fi goes, it's not overly exciting, but as a socialist/anarchist blueprint for a liberated society it is beautiful!
Recommend for any left libertarian!
Download it for free here!
#newsfromnowhere #williammorris
#VendrediLecture : William Morris, "L'Esthétique de la vie", texte d'une conférence donnée à Birmingham en 1896.
"Je suppose que le moment n’est pas encore venu dans le réveil des arts pour exprimer le dégoût qu’inspire la façon horrible, empirant chaque jour, dont les afficheurs vont barbouiller toutes nos villes. Nous devrions néanmoins ressentir de l’aversion pour ces horreurs et prendre la résolution de ne jamais rien acheter des objets recommandés par une pareille publicité.
Je me refuse à croire qu’ils puissent valoir grand’chose, s’ils ont besoin de toute cette réclame pour se vendre."
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Esth%C3%A9tique_de_la_vie
#WilliamMorris #préraphaélisme #Antipub #pollution #socialisme #publicité
#vendredilecture #williammorris #preraphaelisme #antipub #pollution #socialisme #publicite
Today in Labor History March 24, 1834: William Morris, British author, textile designer and revolutionary socialist was born on this date. He wrote the utopian novel “News From Nowhere” and founded the Socialist League in 1874. He was influenced by both Marxism and anarchism.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #socialism #marxism #WilliamMorris #revolutionary #author #novel @bookstadon
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #socialism #marxism #williammorris #Revolutionary #author #novel
¿Sabías que la PRIMERA empresa dedicada al Diseño Gráfico se fundó en 1891 por William Morris? 🤔 #diseñográfico #diseño #empresa #WilliamMorris
#disenografico #diseno #empresa #williammorris
En 1896, William Morris pressent déjà l'existence de crimes contre l'environnement. Mais il les aborde par le biais de l'esthétique, et montre comment la pollution industrielle prive le peuple de son droit à profiter des paysages :
"Eh bien, il y a parmi vous des hommes riches, que nous appelons, assez mal à propos, des manufacturiers, entendant par là des capitalistes qui payent d’autres hommes pour s’établir manufacturiers. Ces messieurs, dont beaucoup achètent des tableaux et se réclament de l’art, brûlent des quantités de charbons. Il existe un acte, voté en vue d’empêcher en certain temps et en certains endroits de couvrir le pays d’un épais nuage de fumée. C’est, à mon avis, un acte très boiteux et pas assez général. Mais rien n’empêche ces amoureux de l’art de se donner à eux-mêmes une loi, et de se faire un point d’honneur de réduire à son minimum cette nuisance de la fumée, en ce qui concerne leurs propres usines. Et s’ils ne le font pas, parce que cela leur coûterait simplement de l’argent, et encore si peu, je dis que leur amour pour l’art n’est qu’un masque. Comment pourriez-vous vous intéresser à la peinture d’un paysage, lorsque par vos actions vous montrez que le paysage lui-même ne vous intéresse pas ! Ou bien, quel droit avez-vous de vous enfermer dans un milieu où s’épanouit la beauté de la forme et des couleurs, lorsque vous rendez impossible aux autres d’y avoir quelque part ?
Et quant à l’acte même sur la fumée, j’ignore de quelle façon vous l’appliquez à Birmingham, mais j’ai constaté moi-même le soin qu’on y apporte en d’autres localités, à Bradford notamment, quoiqu’il y ait tout près à Saltaire un exemple qui devrait faire honte. L’énorme cheminée qui y dessert des acres de tissages et de filatures, appartenant à Sir Titus Salt et à ses frères, est, pour la fumée, aussi inoffensive qu’une cheminée de cuisine. Ou encore à Manchester : un habitant de cette ville m’a affirmé que l’acte sur la fumée y reste littéralement lettre morte. Eh bien, on achète des tableaux à Manchester ; on s’y vante de favoriser les arts ; mais, comme vous le voyez, ce ne peut être qu’une vaine ostentation, en ce qui concerne les riches du moins. Ils veulent seulement en parler, mais leur conduite même en parle assez."
William Morris, "L'Esthétique de la vie", 1896.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Esth%C3%A9tique_de_la_vie
#politique #écologie #environnement #capitalisme #pollution #RéchauffementClimatique #climat #art #WilliamMorris
#politique #ecologie #environnement #capitalisme #pollution #rechauffementclimatique #climat #art #williammorris
Und unser erstes Treffen: Wir beide als Dozenten für Lehrer+Kulturjournalisten, er über #Gothic #Horror Novels, von #Walpole bis zu Exoten, ich über #Fantasy von #WilliamMorris über #Tolkien bis #Mythor und Myra, Fakultätsassistent Rolf Kellner über #ScienceFiction. Und ich noch VOR dem 1.Semester Anglistik an der Uni wo S Prof war. Josef Roth Fan Hackert hatte über mich & die Tübinger MYRA-TAGE in der Presse gelesen + mich spontan engagiert. Später war er mein Dozent, aber erst ich seiner. 3/3
#gothic #horror #walpole #fantasy #williammorris #tolkien #mythor #sciencefiction
Taking notes 📝 #photooftheday #365 #208 #artsandcraftsmovement #williammorris #tatepublishing
#photooftheday #artsandcraftsmovement #williammorris #tatepublishing
Design Milk : A Boerum Hill Residence With a New Romantic Aesthetic https://design-milk.com/a-boerum-hill-residence-with-a-new-romantic-aesthetic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-boerum-hill-residence-with-a-new-romantic-aesthetic #countrysideaesthetic #brooklynapartment #InteriorDesign #brassfixtures #williammorris #bespokeonly #residential #apartment #BROOK&LYN #SkimMilk #newyork #Main
#countrysideaesthetic #brooklynapartment #interiordesign #brassfixtures #williammorris #bespokeonly #residential #apartment #brook #skimmilk #newyork #main
For #FensterFreitag (#WindowFriday), a garden view from a window of #KelmscottManor, the home of #WilliamMorris.
#fensterfreitag #windowfriday #kelmscottmanor #williammorris
Not to be outdone by her famous dad (William Morris), May Morris was a talented designer whose work is said to have been occasionally misattributed to her father.
1. Honeysuckle Wallpaper, May Morris, 1883 #design #williamMorris #wallpaper #homedecor
#homedecor #wallpaper #williammorris #design