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Notes Toward a New Romanticism
Ruskin said that no matter what kind of “new machines we may invent” that Fine Art had to have this unity of head, heart, and hands.
This is all very Romantic, of course, but as Ted Gioia has been saying for a while, “technocracy [has] grown so oppressive and manipulative it [might] spur a backlash. And [our] rebellion might resemble the Romanticist... See more
This is all very Romantic, of course, but as Ted Gioia has been saying for a while, “technocracy [has] grown so oppressive and manipulative it [might] spur a backlash. And [our] rebellion might resemble the Romanticist... See more
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From: Austin Kleon’s substack
Since around 1750, we have been living in the age of Romanticism, an ideology that began in the minds of poets and artists and has now conquered the world, powerfully (yet always quietly) determining how a shopkeeper’s son in Yokohama will approach a first date, how a scriptwriter in Hollywood will shape the ending of a film,
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
Ross Barkantheguardian.com
A natural outgrowth of the romantic’s interest in emotional states—the primacy of the subjective experience over objective truth—was the movement’s attraction to the nostalgic and the uncanny.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
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For a long time now, perhaps since around 1750, Romantic attitudes have been dominant in the Western imagination. The prevailing approach to children, relationships, politics and culture has all been coloured more by a Romantic than by a Classical spirit.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”