In his most famous poem, "A Satire on Mankind", inspired by Juvenal, Rochester attempts to think himself clear of the cast of mind that sought teleological explanations of human conduct and purpose through the application of reason to the alleged mysteries of the cosmos.
This inspired a story about mankind, all of mankind, from the stone age through our bloody past and into the present using that same lens".
Few men in the history of mankind have had more impact on a nation and inspired the world.
I have a secret theory, developed and tested during the Brezhnev years, that one of the little laughs God likes to have, especially on the massed punditry of mankind, is that whenever the world's media (inspired by the world's spooks) decide unanimously to bury someone alive, he gets more months, and even years, added to his divinely ordained expiration date.
Inspired by movies, Surrealism, Dadaism and mechanistic visions of mankind's future, this work, conceived in 1923, was originally scored for multiple synchronized player pianos along with bells, sirens, airplane propeller noise and all manner of percussion.
Mankind's desire to soar like the birds directly inspired the Wright brothers' solution to the problem of controlling a heavier-than-air flying machine, by suggesting the way to do so was to warp the shape of the craft's wings.
Originally written for the documentary For All Mankind, all of the pieces for this album are inspired by the Apollo program.
Inspired by "anthropocene" - a geological era marked by the effects of mankind - Ms. Dibbs "We Were Here" exhibition seeks to raise consciousness around humanity's sense of separation from mother earth and the resultant state of eco-emergency. .
Jason Hedges's minimalist smoker (a design inspired by Donald Judd) explores the beauty of food and drink and the evolution of mankind since learning to cook, as the press release says, the "flesh of animals".
