I am curious why you focus so exclusively on German Romanticism here. I have been reading others, like the doofus Ross Barkan, babble about “neo-romanticism” and actually talk about transcendent lists and Kissick seems actually to want dads and surrealism not romanticism (those two were VERY political, but not in a way that is obvious from their aesthetic products).
Your essay is pretty clear and shows some actual knowledge on the subject but I strongly sense that most people are not using the word to mean the same thing at all.
As an aside this mysterious “resistance lib” that you and doofuses like Barkan believe ruled cultural production like some sort of Tsarist censorship office; who are these strawmen and women? Sometimes one references signs others Cletus safaris yet the people I knew online who were totally fine with so-called (and right wing imagined) cancel culture hated the Cletus safaris and the signs and the only people I saw with the signs were middle class centrists, not liberals. It’s just a category that internet rules require bleating about that, like popular ideas of “hippies” never existed as far as I can tell. It’s just something you fell for, a creation of the bots to distract you.
I just realized your post about DFW was ages ago. Have you read Rachel Cusk’s newest, Parade? I feel you probably have read some of her earlier works. I find every sentence of Parade substantial.
This and Sam Kriss’s review got me to subscribe.
I am curious why you focus so exclusively on German Romanticism here. I have been reading others, like the doofus Ross Barkan, babble about “neo-romanticism” and actually talk about transcendent lists and Kissick seems actually to want dads and surrealism not romanticism (those two were VERY political, but not in a way that is obvious from their aesthetic products).
Your essay is pretty clear and shows some actual knowledge on the subject but I strongly sense that most people are not using the word to mean the same thing at all.
As an aside this mysterious “resistance lib” that you and doofuses like Barkan believe ruled cultural production like some sort of Tsarist censorship office; who are these strawmen and women? Sometimes one references signs others Cletus safaris yet the people I knew online who were totally fine with so-called (and right wing imagined) cancel culture hated the Cletus safaris and the signs and the only people I saw with the signs were middle class centrists, not liberals. It’s just a category that internet rules require bleating about that, like popular ideas of “hippies” never existed as far as I can tell. It’s just something you fell for, a creation of the bots to distract you.
I just realized your post about DFW was ages ago. Have you read Rachel Cusk’s newest, Parade? I feel you probably have read some of her earlier works. I find every sentence of Parade substantial.