User:Pascalle/PERSONAL ESSAY

MANIFESTO

Il Futuro ha un Cuore Antico

The Future has an Ancient Heart_ Carlo Lev

I am a Future Sentimentalist. We live in an increasingly digital environment. We are used to mirror like surfaces of Smartphone’s, computers and tablets. This touching and swiping leaves no trace, no memory, no emotion. Emotions are irrelevant in the age of data. But I see value in emotions and humanity, there is a deeper truth to find in human feelings. Curious and with a keen eye I observe the world around me, and translate this into concepts. Stemming from my own views on societal issues. I create from a place of passion, emotion and critically asking why? Which is what I want to provoke and awaken with my work.

I seek to forge unexpected partnerships to create works that have surprising detail and elevate and challenge modern society. I want to combine data with emotions. I want to challenge societies perceptions and ideas. Not accepting information for truth, because it is presented as such. The media in which my concept manifests is depending on the concept rather than the media. I have the desire to explore the legacy of the old masters and cultural heritage in combination with new technologies. The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future, but while doing so seeking out the new. Combining the know how of industrial design with the poetry of art.

I am a Future Sentimentalist. I make with passion, emotion. Using craft and technology to critically questioning our society.

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Cartesian doubt artesian doubt is a form of methodological skepticism or scepticism associated with the writings and methodology of René Descartes (1596-1650).[1][2] Cartesian doubt is also known as Cartesian skepticism, methodic doubt, methodological skepticism, Universal Doubt, or hyperbolic doubt. Cartesian doubt is a systematic process of being skeptical about (or doubting) the truth of one's beliefs, which has become a characteristic method in philosophy. This method of doubt was largely popularized in Western philosophy by René Descartes, who sought to doubt the truth of all his beliefs in order to determine which beliefs he could be certain were true. Methodological skepticism is distinguished from philosophical skepticism in that methodological skepticism is an approach that subjects all knowledge claims to scrutiny with the goal of sorting out true from false claims, whereas philosophical skepticism is an approach that questions the possibility of pure knowledge. Technique Descartes' method of hyperbolic doubt: 1. accepting only information you know to be true 2. breaking down these truths into smaller units 3. solving the simple problems first 4. making complete lists of further problems Hyperbolic doubt means having the tendency to doubt, since it is an extreme or exaggerated form of doubt.[3] (Knowledge in the Cartesian sense means to know something beyond not merely all reasonable, but all possible, doubt.) In his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), Descartes resolved to systematically doubt that any of his beliefs were true, in order to build, from the ground up, a belief system consisting of only certainly true beliefs. Consider Descartes' opening lines of the Meditations: Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful; and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation... — René Descartes, Meditation I, 1641

Sentimentalism is the practice of being sentimental, or the tendency to base actions and reactions from emotions and feelings as opposed to reason.[1] As a literary mode, sentimentalism has been a recurring aspect of world literature, and is important to the traditions of India, China, and Vietnam.[citation needed] Sentimentalism may refer to a variety of aspects in literature, such as sentimental poetry, the sentimental novel, or the German sentimentalist music movement, Empfindsamkeit.

European sentimentalism arose during the Age of Enlightenment, partly as a response to sentimentalism in philosophy. In eighteenth-century England, the sentimental novel was a major literary genre.

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