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John Ruskin

The Theo-Aesthetic World of William Morris: Introduction

Art, Christianity, Design, Ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Theology

This is the introduction to a paper on William Morris I am writing for a MFA class, the rough draft of which I recently submitted.  Introduction As generative AI floods our screens with astonishingly strange deepfakes and algorithms continue to commodify creativity, a quiet rebellion has been blooming: Gen Z “Luddites” ditch smartphones for flip…

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A Rechristening of Heavenly Ecstasy in a Cold Baptismal Font of Money: McCarraher and Ruskin on the Enchantments of Mammon

Anthropology, Art, Books, Christianity, Current Events, Economics

“If, for Marx and Weber, capitalism was the dynamo of secular modernity, for Ruskin, it embodied a metamorphosis of the sacred, a perverse enchantment of the world. Ruskin clearly feared that ‘secularization’ was really a capitalist form of idolatry—a rechristening of heavenly ecstasy in a cold baptismal font of money, a re-enchantment conducted under the…

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