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Thursday, November 16, 2017

the contemporary sublime

In the 18th century C Edmund Burke wrote that the sublime is a feeling engendered by a vastness one cannot comprehend and Immanuel Kant said that the sublime was like the Egyptian Pyramids - more than we can understand. The sublime is a feeling of not knowing

The Contemporary Sublime
Here we are
We have survived
We go on