Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
by Lars Spuybroek ; foreword by Brian Massumi
- Author(s)
- Lars Spuybroek, Brian Massumi
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
- Scope
- 322 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781474243858
The Sympathy of Things proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Lars Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for the contemporary age. Linking philosophy, design, and the digital, with art history, architecture, and craft, Spuybroek explores the romantic notion of 'sympathy', a core concept in Ruskin's aesthetics, re-evaluating it as the driving force of the twenty-first century aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century, but which Spuybroek argues to be central to contemporary aesthetics and design.
- Keywords
- new media , anthropocene
- Stroom project
- De Dingen (Things) ; Uncertainty Seminar : Multispecies and Miscommunicatio
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Antropoceen
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
