§5 Discerning great cultural deeds (in a variety of forms) is at least a gesture towards recognising “genius”

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“Genius” is a term now very much in fashion, Historicism (against which Nietzsche warned us) triumphed in the age of Foucault, but that era now passes. Still, the World Wide Web will be no friendlier to the age of genius. In that great ocean of texts, how many will be able to discern a work of transcendent eminence?’

~ Bloom, Harold. 2002. Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. New York: Warner Books., p. 195.

/Pete Watt

Originally published at anowmedia.com on March 30, 2018.