If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin; it is that each age must find its own way to beauty writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things; his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. 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 Ruskins 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. Revised throughout; and a new foreword by philosopher Brian Massumi; this is a new edition of a seminal work which has drawn praise from fields as diverse as digital architecture and speculative realism; and will continue to be influential as it wrests Ruskins ideas out of the Victorian era and reconstructs them for the modern age.
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