Re:The rise and decline of thinking over feeling
by tarsinge on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:05PM
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Maybe tangential but that makes me think how opposing mathematics/science/rationality to art/intuition/emotions with people falling in one or the other category seems a relatively recent phenomenon, whereas in the past (Ancient Greece or Renaissance with Da Vinci being the obvious example) that distinction was not present.
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Re:The rise and decline of thinking over feeling
by b3morales on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:46PM
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Yeah, there's a long current in art, across all media, since at least the Industrial Revolution of antipathy to perceptions of modernity, technology, and hyper-rationality. Which then metastasized after the wars in the early 20th century, especially the Great War (WWI). Some of it -- especially the response to the wars -- is fair critique; some is rose-colored and reactionary. And this notion of "science" on one side, "art" on the other, course spread to the wider culture.
I think the personal computer and digital art have been healing that divide somewhat.