Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Isa Yusuf…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
In A Primer for Forgetting, scholar and critic Lewis Hyde explores the idea that forgetting can be as useful as remembering—and that, in fact, the two are not opposed but work in concert with each other. This idea sparked for him when he was studying the importance of memory, and in reading about the old oral cultures who passed knowledge through w... See more
Haley Nahman • #220: When forgetting is good
Joanne…
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
A culture that defines itself on striving its way to the future has been forced into the timeless underworld; a place full of ghosts and voyagers, infinite possibility and potent danger. This pandemic has not called us into a heroic adventure, but forced us to descend into silence and darkness and humility.
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
anthropologist A. L. Kroeber notes, “We have no record of cultureless human societies.”
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
The writer creates, the reader receives, the librarian stores and the curator decides what is worthwhile and why .
The curator (also known as the "critic" in literary circles) decides what is valuable, to whom is it valuable, and why it is valuable. They create and sustain culture . Their role is to build and maintain canons—not "set in stone" canon... See more
The curator (also known as the "critic" in literary circles) decides what is valuable, to whom is it valuable, and why it is valuable. They create and sustain culture . Their role is to build and maintain canons—not "set in stone" canon... See more