The Shapeshifter as Patron of Cultural Decline
We take a look at the ‘shapeshifter’ as the archetype of a postmodern society through cinema.
We take a look at the ‘shapeshifter’ as the archetype of a postmodern society through cinema.
When a culture loses the capacity for faith at all, be it religious or secular, and falls into a pit of relativism, it produces scientists all too willing to yield to the shrill demands of noisy, impassioned political activists.
For those anchored in Christian tradition, Vattimo’s postmodernism is interesting for claiming to share this anchor, even as it sails into perilous waters.
By locating the essence of traditional architecture in the primacy of character over concrete—the pattern we see over the material we don’t—Semper championed particularity over uniformity.
Byung-Chul Han draws attention to the value of things which have been the subject of neglect and indeed vilification for three hundred years in the West: inherited loyalties, roles, and customs.
If conservatives seek to uphold the law of the home, it is because they consider it neither feasible nor desirable to transcend it. Hence, they defend the local over the universal and the familiar over the anonymous. Their attachment to their country is founded on reverence and fidelity to that place which made them, and whose geography, law and culture constitutes the fabric of their identity and the object of their true affection.
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