There is the wonderful book by Michael Pennington - I always like the way he comes up with the lines that exactly fit his subject, but then he has a pretty extensive knowledge on Shakespeare. The wonderful image of the Athenian craftsmen that practice art simply for the love of it and that's how it should be, a field of actions that is not ruled by considerations or strategies outside itself, especially economic, a true pastime. Yet economists have discovered this field and have discovered how much money is to be made in it by apparently simple means. Regretfully slowly but decisively they are ruining this field of imagination, the last resort, by embracing the idea of turning shit to gold. An artist might by his imagination , but the economist is only able to take it literally.
No comments:
Post a Comment