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Philosophie antique, psychologie moderne
Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)


Why Beauty Matters
(and how it has been destroyed by "usability")
A short thread... https://t.co/lBixviXkT9
Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian, the language which, like French in Imperial Russia, had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah. ‘No one has any interest in the classics today,’ he said. ‘If they read at all, they read trash from America. They have no idea what they are
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The past hundred years a canon that defined modernity, post-modernity, and our world was established, celebrated, illuminated, and constantly revised by critics and appreciators who used the pen to make their case. They’re the ones who helped establish cultural significance. They’re the ones who remind us to marvel not at demographics, but at... See more
The prestige recession

Mac the Knife: On Dwight Macdonald
thenation.com
the internet not only had democratized information beyond people’s wildest imaginings but also was replacing genuine knowledge with “the wisdom of the crowd,”
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.
Resistance does not... See more
Resistance does not... See more
Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william
It’s hard to talk about “masterpieces” because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value realism; maybe even a kind of Platonism about beauty) and difficult to defend, but which we all nevertheless subscribe to intuitively.