culture
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgBuilding at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe
Brian Stoutcitizenstout.substack.com
I know plenty of literate adults who can decode words, but who also appear to be lousy readers.
John Warner • We Need to Make More Readers
The prestige recession
ystrickler.com
Instead, art and culture have been safely neutralized as interchangeable commercial objects just like everything else.
At its best, cultural criticism is love and art that exists to give love to other expressions of art. It’s beautiful in its indulgence. A positive feedback loop that gives everybody exactly what they desire. Gods, scribes, muses, an audience, a culmination. This is what we want out of art. Something that feels grand, meaningful, connected to the ages. That doesn’t happen on its own. It needs context, dedicated space, deeper knowledge, appreciation.
Girard believes that this concept permeates every aspect of society. “Enlightenment concepts of the individual persist all the way into existentialist thought,” he argues. In espousing equality between all men, the Enlightenment propagated the belief that the individual should not be subsumed to another. Indeed, the individual should not be... See more
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.