#benjamin goethe

[zikbitume]

@GTWorldChEu Congratulations to our Overall Season Champions for 2022! #GTWorldChEu | #FanatecGT

#audi #r88 #gt3 #wrt #car #thomas neubauer #benjamin goethe #aws #Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe #Fanatec GT #Fanatec #GT World Challenge Europe #barcelona

[yorgunherakles]

mekanlar ve uğultular ruhlara etki eder. bu incelikli etki seçimlere ve tavırlara yansır.

alain corbin - sessizliğin tarihi

#kitap #edebiyat #blogger #felsefe #kitaplar #blog #kitap kurdu #şiir #music #alain corbin #sessizliğin tarihi #charles baudelaire #pasajlar #walter benjamin #estetik #goethe #oblomov #beyaz geceler #orhan pamuk #masumiyet müzesi #lale müldür #murathan mungan #marcel proust #kayıp zamanın izinde #yakalanan zaman #oscar wilde #frida kahlo #şiir blog

[aschenblumen]

Lo que pone a término tal apariencia, detiene el movimiento y corta la palabra a la armonía es lo inexpresivo. Aquella vida funda su secreto, mientras que esta paralización funda el contenido de la obra. Al igual que la interrupción por la palabra imperativa puede arrancar la verdad frente a un subterfugio femenino precisamente allí donde dicho subterfugio se interrumpe, lo inexpresivo obliga a detenerse a la trémula armonía, eternizando por medio de su inciso el temblor de esta.

—Walter Benjamin, «Las afinidades electivas de Goethe» (cap. III) en Obras, libro I, vol. 1. Edición de Rolf Tiedemann y Hermann Schweppenhäuser, traducción de Alfredo Brotons Muñoz.

#walter benjamin #las afinidades electivas de goethe #goethes wahlverwandtschafen #rolf tiedemann #hermann schweppenhäuser #alfredo brotons muñoz

[abridurif]

Comme on ne peut pas plus saisir un tout dans le savoir que dans la réflexion, parce qu’à celui-là manque l’intériorité et à celle-ci l’extériorité, il nous faut nécessairement penser la science comme un art, si nous voulons qu’on puisse en attendre une manière quelconque de totalité. Et ce n’est pas dans l’universel, dans l’excès, qu’il nous faut la chercher, mais puisque l’art s’exprime toujours tout entier dans chaque œuvre singulière, la science elle aussi devrait se montrer tout entière dans chacun de ses objets particuliers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Notes pour l’histoire de la théorie des couleurs ; citation en exergue de la préface épistémo-critique de l’Origine du drame baroque allemand de Walter Benjamin

#goethe #walter benjamin #origine du drame baroque allemand #préface épistémo-critique

[opelman]

Audi R8 LMS GT3 / James Pull / GBR / Stuart Hall / GBR / Benjamin Goethe / MCO / Team WRT by Artes Max Via Flickr: Festival de la Velocidad 2021 / Circuit de Barcelona

#Audi #R8 #LMS #GT3 #James #Pull #GBR #Stuart #Hall #Benjamin #Goethe #MCO #Team #WRT #Festival #de #la #Velocidad #2021 #Circuit #Barcelona #sports #racing #race #motor #autosport #nikon #السيارات #車 #Autos

[spectaculardistractions]

One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism, and not only of that but of all modern culture: rational conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling, was born—that is what this discussion has sought to demonstrate—from the spirit of Christian asceticism. One has only to re-read the passage from Franklin, quoted at the beginning of this essay, in order to see that the essential elements of the attitude which was there called the spirit of capitalism are the same as what we have just shown to be the content of the Puritan worldly asceticism, only without the religious basis, which by Franklin’s time had died away. The idea that modern labour has an ascetic character is of course not new. Limitation to specialized work, with a renunciation of the Faustian universality of man which it involves, is a condition of any valuable work in the modern world; hence deeds and renunciation inevitably condition each other to-day. This fundamentally ascetic trait of middle-class life, if it attempts to be a way of life at all, and not simply the absence of any, was what Goethe wanted to teach, at the height of his wisdom, in the Wanderjahren, and in the end which he gave to the life of his Faust. For him the realization meant a renunciation, a departure from an age of full and beautiful humanity, which can no more be repeated in the course of our cultural development than can the flower of the Athenian culture of antiquity.

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic

#max weber #the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism #benjamin franklin #johann wolfgang von goethe

[cryptologicalmystic]

in limbus company, the trojan war has been syncretized with the smoke war, whose causes we already know. ayin and benjamin started the war ultimately because of carmen's dream.

you could position carmen as any of the women involved in the trojan war's beginning. there's a whole 'nother essay that could come with putting her in the spot of eris, for example; creator of the golden apple of discord, whose allure (and the fact that it was marked "to the most beautiful") had three goddesses fighting over it - sounds familiar, doesn't it?

but i want to focus on one specifically. helen of troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, whose beauty started a war.

the narrative has already done a lot of work positioning carmen as "the most beautiful". look at this quote from angela, on day 1 of lobotomy corporation (emphasis mine):

The color of my hair is that of the morning sky after a light shower. The tone and shape of my voice is taken from the wisest person in the world. Lastly, my face is picturesque of the person who had the most beautiful smile. ...

and see the thing is that helen of troy doesn't show up just in the iliad. she shows up in basically every version of the faust myth, goethe's play included.

i've never actually read goethe's faust (save for a few chapters of part i and the very end of part ii), and wikipedia's summary of helen's appearance in part ii is kind of confusing, so i'll leave the actual analysis to people who have actually read the play.

but i will say this:

regardless of if carmen is helen, if a character who shows up in not one but two source works doesn't have any relevance in limbus at all, i'm going to be really surprised.

#sfw #limbus company #library of ruina #lobotomy corporation

[deathmetalunicorn1]

alright so can i ask another part on my old request which was genius reader x Nikola and the scientist/male reader who is basically William James Sidis.

so like what if male reader never turn his back on science and knowledge and just did it in secret without Nikola and the other scientist knowing

(this was after they knew male reader was smart if not more smarter then them:

it happened when one of them said "if only there where other geniuses we knew…that can help us with this"

because they're having trouble with both a invention and mathematical problem and male reader heard this and said "more geniuses? i know people that might help!"the other scientist looked at male reader confused, because they thought, they where the only geniuses he knew,

so male reader led them to his laboratory/research area which they never knew and when they asked him why he didn't tell them about this, male reader hit them with the classic "because you didn't ask!"

the door looked like a big clock which made the other scientists confused on how they didn't see this! so when the hand hit 12 the clock door opened

the inside was a large steampunk looking laboratory with thousands of books reaching the ceilings making it look like a library, paper scattered the floor, inventions left and right

and having two floors! and having rooms like a chemistry room, craft room basically everything you need! basically a genius paradise!

as well as having a very large chalkboard ware Gottfried Leibniz and Goethe,Johann Wolfgang von was writing theories

on the side was leonardo da vinci painting a large mural on the side of the wall and Marilyn vos Savant was on the second floor and was talking with Ada Lovelace and Hypatia, Ettore Majorana was sitting down on one of the chairs reading a book and writing theories talking with charles darwin

and Mozart was playing the piano on a little stage to the side filling the room with a beautiful Melody

as well as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson AND Andres Bonifacio as well as Jose Rizal himself taking to each other about they're respective revolution's and politics,

here's the list of everyone there!

the list:

1.) leonardo da vinci

iq:180-220

title:greatest inventor and painter of his time

2.) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

iq:210-225

title:A German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and crit

3.) Marilyn vos Savant

iq:180-228

title:the smartest woman to have ever lived

4.) Gottfried Leibniz

iq:182-205

title:Russian Privy Councillor from Peter I as well as Privy Councillor at the Imperial Court in Vienna.

5.) Ettore Majorana

iq:183-200

title:the scientist who disappeared without a trace/the one who possibly discovered neutrons

6.) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

iq:150-155

title: the greatest and most well known composer in history

7.) Alexander Hamilton

iq:120-160

title:secretary of the treasury and one of the founding fathers

8.) Benjamin Franklin

iq:130-160

title:the father/discoverer of lightning and one of the founding fathers

9.) jose Rizal

iq:150-160

title:Father of Filipino Nationalism/the one who started the Philippines revolution

10.) andres bonifacio

iq:100-140??(not sure)

title:the Father of the Philippine Revolution/The Great Plebeian, Supremo of the Katipunan

11.) Thomas Jefferson

iq:160-175

title:one of American Founding Father/the principal author of the Declaration of Independence

12.) charles darwin

iq:150-165

title:the father of evolution /the one who put light on human evolution

13.) Hypatia

iq:170–210

title:the greatest Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician of her time

14.) Ada Lovelace!

iq:170-200

title:mother of computer/the one who revolutionized computer programmer

(you can search their names if you want to know more)

and turns out all of those geniuses and male reader are literally the bestest of friends! like all of them yelling theories and opinions left and right and basically teaching and helping each other so that they can understand there respective fields/talents.

and turns out reader and the 14 geniuses would often hang out in reader's laboratory/research area, almost everyday because of how frequently they use his lab/area.

and so how would the other scientist and Nikola react to seeing male reader being the best of friends with the most important and greatest minds in history and how would they would they feel about it?

-It had been a few weeks since you showed off your intelligence, fixing a problem that your friends, Nikola, Marie, Isaac, and Thomas had been tearing their hair out over.

-It was a slow process for you to open up, helping them out with more of their problems and questions, as past trauma made it a little scary for you.

-However, once you started, you remembered how fun it was for you, working with complex problems, asking all sorts of questions, and discovering new breakthroughs.

-Nikola patted you on your back, looking proud as he looked over the newest equation you had been working on with Isaac, “This is amazing Y/N!”

-You gave him a warm smile and Marie, who was nearby, finishing her own research, “How did you not go crazy while not doing this stuff? I get antsy after just a few hours if I don’t work on something.”

-You just grinned, offering them a break and you led them down a long hallway, “There were other things to keep my mind busy- not just science and questions. And I had some help with it.”

-They came to a stop in front of a large metal door, covered with intricate clockwork mechanisms and you knocked before opening the door and their eyes went wide.

-Before them were so many more geniuses, not just scientists, but geniuses in their own fields, like Mozart, who was playing on the piano, greeting you as you walked in as he paused, writing a few more notes on his sheet music.

-You passed by Charles Darwin, greeting him who paused to greet you, as did Ettore Majorana, before returning to their conversation.

-You stopped at a large wall, seeing Leonardo Da Vinci painting a massive but stunningly beautiful mural, “Looks good Leo- you’ve been working hard!”

-Leonardo looked down, seeing you and the new guests, “Ahh hello my friends! I’m glad you like it- it will be even better once I’ve finished everything!”

-Thomas was in awe, seeing more of histories’ geniuses, just relaxing and working around the room, like Gottfried Leibniz, Goethe, Marilyn Vos Savant, Ada Lovelace, and Hypatia to name a few, and soon you were by yourself, speaking with Leonardo, as your friends had rushed to talk with the others in the room.

-You couldn’t help but grin, shaking your head like you were exasperated, seeing everyone quickly getting hyper- all of them enjoying having new faces and fresh minds to have discussions with.

-Your friends were quick to discover that while you weren’t working on science, or at least the science they were used to- you kept your mind sharp with your fellow brilliant minds.

-You sank into a nearby chair, leaning your cheek on your fist, a smile on your face- things were going to be loud for a while- but you didn’t mind, seeing the others all so happy as well.

#record of ragnarok #ror x reader #ror nikola tesla

[thedeviljudges]

kang yohan’s reading list

if anyone’s in the mood to check out some of the books yohan was reading and/or had on his shelf, i gathered all of english language books and compiled them into a shorter list from my devil judge book list i’d made awhile back.

hopefully some of these might be interesting to check out, if you haven’t already.

Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche

Faust– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The God of Small Things - Arundati Roy

The Scions of Shannara - Terry Brooks

Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders - Benjamin B. Wolman

Strokes of Genius - L. Jon Wertheim

Mafia Wipeout - Donald W. Cox

Ethology: Its Nature and Relations with Other Sciences - Robert A. Hinde

The People’s Lawyer - Author Unknown (could possibly reference The People’s Lawyer: The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation’s Longest-Serving Attorney General - Frank J. Kelly)

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arednt

The Moon and Sixpence - Somerset Maugham

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Naked Heart - Jacqueline Briskin

For All Mankind - Harry Hurt III

Wise Guy - Nicholas Pileggi

The Journals of John Cheever - John Cheever

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Le Rouge et le Noir (직과 흒) - Stendhal

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey - Jane Goodall

Stress Intensity Factors Handbook - Y. Murakami

#x #the devil judge #* #*the devil judge

[sastrology]

GENIUS INDICATORS IN ASTROLOGY: Similarities between geniuses in history

“We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” - Marie Curie

These are the chart similarities I have noted between some of times most well known geniuses. Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, etc.

Please note, these similarities in no way shape or form should put limitations on your own chart. I am also at the hands of the internet with obtaining birth times, so take that as you will.

MERCURY ASPECTING SATURN: Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Leonardo DaVinci, Nikola Tesla, Ben Franklin, Wilhelm Ostwald

This was common in about 90 percent of the charts, specifically the square/conjunct but trines were also noted. When we look at Mercury the planet of communication mingling with Saturn, who we associate more with stability, karma, and restriction, it can create curious individuals. Typically this results in people who are mentally disciplined, even structured thinkers. Notably disciplined in most things they do, they’re tedious in mental endeavors and fine detailing. These individuals can spend years crafting, cultivating, and nurturing their specific tool of choice.

PLANET(S) IN THE 3RD HOUSE: Nikola Tesla (stellium), Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Charles Darwin (stellium), Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison (stellium), Marie Curie

Another noteworthy observation was that almost all of them had at least one planet in the 3rd house, typically 2-3 in that house. How does the 3rd house relate to intelligence? It’s less surprising when we keep in mind the 3rd is ruled by Gemini (Mercury) and looking closer at the 3rd house in Astrology we are dealing with the realms of communication, travel, and early education in a general sense.. People with a planet, but more indicative in people with 2-3 planets in this house, we see individuals who almost have a leg up in the departments of learning at a young age. Even if people with 3rd house placements are not “geniuses” most will relay that they had a high potential of intelligence young even if that potential does not carry on into adulthood

A GRAND TRINE IN THE NATAL CHART: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stephen Hawking (allegedly), Ben Franklin, Marie Curie

A grand trine in astrology represents a rare, smooth flowing energy of 3 planets that pass information between each other in a seamless way, 3 perfect best friends if you will. People blessed with a grand trine in astrology have natural talent that is pronounced . The energy of a trine can be so effortless it can almost become latent if not harnessed. They could be suspiciously lucky, especially in the houses involved. It can be difficult for these individuals to relate to others in the matters they excel in, they can have trouble understanding why something that’s as natural as sticking out their arm isn’t as easy for everyone else.

PLANET(S) IN THE 10TH HOUSE: Albert Einstein (stellium), Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie (stellium), Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Ostwald

The 10th house in astrology is associated with public image, career achievements, and your life’s work. It can be looked at like Mercurys more serious brother. Putting that in mind, most of the charts I compared did not have an empty 10th house. People with planet(s) in the 10th house leave their mark on the world one way or another, they are downright tenacious in their ambitions.

Interesting side notes:

In ALL of the charts, Venus was either in the 10th house, or aspecting Midheaven.

Mercury was most commonly found in the 3rd or 10th house

Most common chart shapes were splash and bucket, followed by bowl.

Empty 7th house, primarily. If occupied, with no more than 1 planet.

Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Nikola Tesla all had the sign of Cancer somewhere in the big 3

The signs of Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Capricorn somewhere in the big 3

I am not a genius, nor an astrologer. The phrase genius can be applied to a lot of intelligent, creative, successful people. This isn’t a complete list, as I’m sure if I spent more hours I would have uncovered more so please take this post with a grain of salt! and be mindful that some of this information may not be completely accurate as I am going off of the internet’s knowledge of birth times. If you notice any inaccuracies, please DM me or send me an ask, we’re here to learn from each other.

#astrology #astro notes #natal chart

[pugzman3]

Psalms chapter 68

1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.) Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.

16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.

30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:

33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

[humanperson105]

Mikhail Lifshitz: Marxist Aesthetics and a Critique of Modern Art

What is important to me is to mark the main features of the worldview we are offered as the lodestar of the future art – the renunciation of realistic pictures, which Picasso sees as an empty illusion, that is, deception, and the affirmation of a wilful fiction, designed to spark enthusiasm, that is, the conscious deception of mythmaking. [...] Let’s just say that the main inner goal of such art lies in suppressing the consciousness of the conscious mind. A flight into superstition is the very minimum. Even better is a flight into an unimaginable world. Hence, the constant effort to shatter the mirror of life or at least to make it muddy and unseeing. Any image must now be given qualities of ‘unlikeness’. In the way, pictoriality recedes, eventually becoming something free of any association with real life. [...] Once it was enough to present a few geometrical figures on the canvas to avoid any associations. Now this is too little. The self-defences of consciousness are so refined that even abstract forms are reminiscent of something real. That requires an even greater degree of detachment. Hence, there appears anti-art, Pop Art, which largely consists of the demonstration of real things, enclosed in an invisible frame. In a sense, this is the end of a long evolution from real depictions to the reality of bare facts. It might seem we’ve already achieved that goal: the life of the spirit has ended, the worm of consciousness has been crushed. Still, that is an empty illusion. The ailing spirit’s attempts to jump out of its own skin are senseless and hopeless. When reflection revolves around itself endlessly, it only gives rise to ‘boring infinity’ and an insatiable thirst for the other. [...] Yes, ‘modern art’ is more philosophy than art. It is a philosophy expressing the dominance of power and facts on lucid thinking and poetic contemplation of the world. The brutal demolition of real forms stands for an outburst of blind embittered volition. It is the slave’s revenge, his make-believe liberation from the yoke of necessity, a simple pressure valve. If it were only a pressure valve! There is a fatal connection between the slavish form of protest and oppression itself. According to all the newest aesthetic theories, art’s effect is hypnotic: it traumatises or on the contrary blunts or calms a consciousness that no longer has any life of its own. In short, it is the art of a suggestible crowd at the ready to run after the emperor’s chariot. Why am I Not a Modernist? - Mikhail Lifshitz

Lifshitz's critique of modern art and its "hypnotic effect" targets modernism's romantic heritage and its animating desire for art to redeem what it sees as a fallen world through acts of a sovereign will possessed by a singular genius (hence the reference to the "emperors chariot"). Its no coincidence the notion of the genius is a quintessentially Roman notion that Walter Benjamin found in the works of none other than Goethe that entailed "the patriarchal idea that every culture, including bourgeois culture, could only thrive under the protection of and in the shadow of the absolute state." (Benjamin - Goethe: the Reluctant Bourgeois) Hitler's status as a failed artist, by now such a trite fact as to be included in the encyclopedia that is middle-brow pop historical consciousness, is a testament to the prevalence of this desire for a despot-as-artist that romanticism, among other things, has left in its wake. Fredric Jameson's antidote to the culture of the crowd seeking a new art school Ceasar is “a pedagogical political culture which seeks to endow the individual subject with some new heightened sense of its place in the global system…” (Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. pg. 54). Lifshitz and Jameson endorse a realism that attempts to allow the masses to understand the world so they may one day change it.

#philosophy #theory #fredric jameson #Mikhail Lifshitz #marxism #Proleartthreat

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Ostensibly to commemorate the first anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770 – 1827) death, Beethoven's worshipful younger colleague Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) puts on the only public concert that Schubert would ever give featuring his own original works in 1828. This historically important concert was both a critical and financial success… but unfortunately, it was also quickly overshadowed by Niccolo Paganini’s (1782 – 1840) first triumphant appearances in Vienna. Schubert died of typhoid fever just eight months later, at the age of 31. Notwithstanding his tragically early death, in some ways, Schubert was actually a rather *late* developer as a composer – it was only in the final year and a half of his life (perhaps not coincidentally following the death of his idol Beethoven) that he truly came into full flowering as a composer of instrumental music written in larger forms. Speaking of Schubert's unparalleled artistic growth during that period, 20th Century British composer Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) marveled at what he dubbed “the most miraculous 18 months in musical history…” PICTURED: An 1821 printed first edition sheet containing three of Schubert's earliest published songs -- "Schafer’s Kalgelid" ("Shepherd’s Lament"), “Heidenroslen” (“Little Rose of the Field,”) and “Jager’s Abendlied” (“Hunter’s Evening Song”) -- all featuring texts written by the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832). In his earliest printed publications, Schubert confirmed their authenticity by appending his "control mark" on the back of the folio, as can be seen here (albeit in a slightly trimmed fashion) in the final two photos. Of additional note is the fact that this score contains an early and interesting metronome marking (see Photo #4): "Maelzel's Metronom ([eighth note symbol] = 120.)" As this rather unusual terminology suggests, in 1821, the metronome was still a new and novel device; Johann Maelzel (1772 - 1838) -- a good friend of Beethoven's -- had only patented the first modern metronome 5 years earlier, in 1816.

#Ludwig van Beethoven #Beethoven #composer #pianist #piano #music #Classical period #Romantic era #opera #bel canto #classical music #music history #aria #diva #prima donna #chest voice #Franz Schubert #Schubert

[opelman]

McLaren 720S GT3 EVO / Marvin KIRCHHŌFER / CHE / Benjamin GOETHE / DEU / Nicolai KJAERGAARD / DNK / Garage 59 Group by Artes Max Via Flickr: Festival de la Velocidad de Barcelona-Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS 2023 / Circuit de Barcelona

#Racing #Velocidad #Circuit #Barcelona #sports #race #motor #autosport #nikon #السيارات #車 #Autos #coches #cars #automóviles #автомоб #car #coche #racecar #Festival #de #la #Barcelona-Fanatec #GT #World #Challenge #Europe #powered #by #AWS

[spectaculardistractions]

[W]e have already called attention to that most important principle of the capitalistic ethic which is generally formulated “honesty is the best policy”. Its classical document is the tract of Franklin quoted above. And even in the judgment of the seventeenth century the specific form of the worldly asceticism of the Baptists, especially the Quakers, lay in the practical adoption of this maxim. On the other hand, we shall expect to find that the influence of Calvinism was exerted more in the direction of the liberation of energy for private acquisition. For in spite of all the formal legalism of the elect, Goethe’s remark in fact applied often enough to the Calvinist: “The man of action is always ruthless; no one has a conscience but an observer.”

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic

#max weber #the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism #benjamin franklin #johann wolfgang von goethe

[grandhotelabyss]

Jumping off your comment on Substack that Poe invented avant-garde poetry and pulp fiction, and Jane Austen invented romance fiction, what other authors invented genres? What was the most recent genre invented?

I was being deliberately provocative with that statement. Often it's hard to name a single inventor. Why are all these genres invented in the last three centuries? Because of print culture and mass literacy's explosion of discourse. Back before the printing press and mass literacy, you didn't need that many genres; tragedy, comedy, epic, and romance were enough. And most modern genres are, as critics like Northrop Frye would insist, developments of these. (Austen writes comedy; Poe writes romance.) But still, with so many more opportunities to create, more is created, so a few further generalizations can be made. Walter Scott invented the historical novel at the same time as Poe and Austen were inventing everything else. And though I credited Austen with the realist novel in its modern form, Balzac had a hand in that, too, turning Scott's approach to the past as living continuum onto the present itself. Plenty of authors invent sub-genres of broader genres. Poe gives us modern horror in general by modernizing the Gothic, itself devised as the return of modernity's repressed by Walpole and Radcliffe, in the same way that Austen modernizes the domestic sentimental novel of Richardson and Rousseau by synthesizing it with the comic epic of Fielding. These innovations flow into others, from the realistic novel of ideas in George Eliot, the proto-modernist novel of consciousness in Henry James on Austen's side to the further techno-modernizations of the Gothic in Stoker, Stevenson, and eventually Lovecraft on Poe's. The superhero is invented in the 20th century out of pulp influences, synthesizing the Poe-like detective (itself a romance derivative: the modern knight-errant) with Wellsian science-fiction scenarios (themselves descended from the romance's enchanted landscapes); the inventors here, not quite literary or artistic geniuses, are Siegel and Shuster, who probably would have cited Hercules and Samson. Going back to high literature, the bildungsroman is invented in the 18th century as the epic itinerary of the modern soul in an alien society: Defoe and Fielding, Rousseau and Goethe. The bildungsroman becomes the existential novel in the late 19th century, often mediated by Poe's own influence, his injection of the immobilizing irrational into the narrative of development, as with Notes from Underground, and flowing from there into Hamsun, Camus, Sartre, Dazai, Ellison, and into the present. Dostoevsky more than anyone else can also perhaps also be credited with the novel of ideas, though, as I said, George Eliot provides a stabler English version. The synthesizers and the inventors, the last and the first, can be hard to tell apart. Austen and Poe stand at the end as well as at the beginning of traditions, each looking back to the ruins of an older order. Walter Benjamin: "every great work founds a genre or dissolves one." These two gestures are the same gesture. In Ulysses we find Austen's domestic realism and rational psychology fused with Poe's formalism and irrational psychology at the apotheosis of modern fiction and the birth of the 20th-century novel. Kafka and Borges each come out of Poe's innovation to create something new and indefinable we are still living with, still annotating, still working on, too "still in it" to quite name it. Woolf is unimaginable without Austen, yet not quite deducible from Austen, and still a regulating influence. It's an infinite topic. As for the most recent genres and their inventors, someone younger than me will have to answer; go ahead, tell me to read One Piece; tell me to play video games; you won't be the first.

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