Candide Candide. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694–1778), by the time of the Lisbon earthquake, was already a well-established author, known for his satirical wit. He had been made a member of the Académie Française in 1746. He was a deist, a strong proponent of religious freedom, and a critic of tyrannical governments. "Candide" became part of his large, diverse body of philosophical, political and artistic works expressing these views. More specifically, it was a model for the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels called the "contes philosophiques". This genre, of which Voltaire was one of the founders, included previous works of his
Fran Ilich Narr@ative is Possible: Political Imagination in the Internet Age]. It was published by Recovecos in Argentina in 2011 and is forthcoming from The Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. In 2012, Fran Ilich co-created an early Bitcoin-related conceptual art performance titled “Blockchain Performance”, as co-production of Artistic Bokeh & Spacebank in which 20 Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds have been purchased with the transaction 61e545ea577e4a3ff5b98e845bc0671c2a08bc3b95b07a8c9b10833314158f8b. Since 2010 Ilich lives in New York City. Fran Ilich Fran Ilich Morales Muñoz is a Mexican writer and media artist who principally works on the theory and practice of narrative media. Born in 1975, during