The Sympathy of Things
Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
by Lars Spuybroek ; foreword by Brian Massumi

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Auteur(s)

Lars Spuybroek, Brian Massumi

Uitgever

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Omvang

322 p., geïllustreerd, 23.5 cm.

ISBN

9781474243858

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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.

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Trefwoorden

new media , anthropocene

Stroom project

De Dingen (Things) ; Uncertainty Seminar : Multispecies and Miscommunicatio

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 11 - 3: Antropoceen

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Opmerkingen

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.