Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
depend on an accurate apprehension of the context
Eric Hayot • Humanist Reason
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Orientalism
To admire a misanthrope.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
exposed the poverty and artificiality
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
and against approaches
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Lost in a featureless wasteland of my own mortality, and finding no traction in the reams of scientific studies, intracellular molecular pathways, and endless curves of survival statistics, I began reading literature again: Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Mo
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Charles Eliot Norton,