Voltaire Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his "nom de plume" Voltaire (; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially the Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite
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