Ours
is an elegiac age. At The Weekly Standard
read Joseph Epstein on “Whatever Happened to High Culture?”:
“Culture
comprises connections and interconnections between past and present, and these
in turn comprise the future of culture.
“Just
now, though, the future of culture seems unclear, murky, if not somewhat
dubious. One is hard pressed to think of great names in the realm of
contemporary culture.”
2 comments:
Superb essay! Many thanks.
And then the Boston Review drops through the letter box with a review by Jenny Hendrix of Sven Birkerts "Art in a Digital Age" She quotes Birkert as saying "Art is an act of attention, framing a piece of the world through the imagination, imbuing it with meaning." versus the distractions of the digital age. Chimes beautifully with Epstein.
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