I enjoyed this discussion with Colin McEnroe (a very good host: he quotes Shakespeare off the cuff as well as the Rocky movies) and very much. Becca is an excellent critic and the whole thing was very enjoyable for me. We talked about what good taste is, whether everyone can cultivate taste, if it's just a way for high class people to make other people feel bad, and so on.
We talked about what good taste is, whether everyone can cultivate taste, if it's just a way for high class people to make other people feel bad, and so on. We also discussed the philistinism of the literary establishment, why some classics flopped on first publication, whether the American suspicion of aesthetics has its roots in the Puritans, how modernism fits with that idea, and my suggestion that AI will have its own taste. My thanks to Colin, Lily Tyson, and the team for having me on.
My thanks to Colin, Lily Tyson, and the team for having me on. Who knew Connecticut public radio was so good. (Quite a lot of you, I guess.