Saved by Bora and
The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
a crisis of confidence in the relevance of the humanities.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
juarry added
We have amazing tools at our fingertips. But the crises of our time are not commercial, technological, or scientific; they are fundamentally humanistic. We need an inquiry into the assumptions and the inherited design of the modern human experience. How will we live, learn, work, play, and sustain ourselves in the twenty-first century?
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
We have amazing tools at our fingertips. But the crises of our time are not commercial, technological, or scientific; they are fundamentally humanistic. We need an inquiry into the assumptions and the inherited design of the modern human experience. How will we live, learn, work, play, and sustain ourselves in the twenty-first century?
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The humanities are our essential fortification as we defend ourselves against an entirely utilitarian engineering mind-set. They help us celebrate and keep sacred what we don’t know.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
juarry added
The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way that they’ve been hijacked as ideological programs of cultural change by many elite universities. I mean humanities broadly understood as the exploration of what it truly means to be human and the sk... See more
A Bull Market in the Humanities
from Ashley Zhang:
the longer I spent seeking answers on how to flourish, the more I recognized that the challenges we face are both systemic and philosophical. People cannot flourish if our institutions, structures, and beliefs are hostile to it — and yet, the onus is placed on individuals to resist pernicious incentives in order to craft a goo... See more
sari added
What was once the heart and soul of our education, the foundation of our most basic notions regarding our humanity, has now become a field of study pursued only by dreamers and rebels.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
juarry added
The humanities are our most treasured—and useless—“special skills.” And it is their very uselessness—their determination to remain uncorrupted by models of efficiency and optimization—that is their saving grace.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
juarry added