this one is for our park loving friend.
So if these landscape architects would just pull themselves up by their bootstraps things would improve? Some truth there, but it depends on where you enter the dialectic. Manhattan Institute reactionary Peter Huber advocates an environmentalism of aesthetics rather than techno-savant wonkism (T. Roosevelt good/Al Gore bad). He has the starting point right, but hasn’t learned a basic lesson: “perception engages cognition” (poet/critic David Shapiro used this to defend Minimalism against reductive critique). Aesthetics will eventually lead to wonkism, and maybe, a chance to close the dialectic circuit.
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- dave 1-28-2000 5:40 pm
So if these landscape architects would just pull themselves up by their bootstraps things would improve? Some truth there, but it depends on where you enter the dialectic. Manhattan Institute reactionary Peter Huber advocates an environmentalism of aesthetics rather than techno-savant wonkism (T. Roosevelt good/Al Gore bad). He has the starting point right, but hasn’t learned a basic lesson: “perception engages cognition” (poet/critic David Shapiro used this to defend Minimalism against reductive critique). Aesthetics will eventually lead to wonkism, and maybe, a chance to close the dialectic circuit.
- alex 1-29-2000 10:55 am [add a comment]