Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify ex… - Richard Sennett
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify ex…
- Richard Sennett
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. - Richard Sennett
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consult… - Richard Sennett
Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consult…
When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race t… - Richard Sennett
When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race t…
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. - Richard Sennett
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.
Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. - Richard Sennett
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination. - Richard Sennett
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their c… - Richard Sennett
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their c…
The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone - Richard Sennett
The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone
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