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To trip, to stutter or to spill something are moments in which cer-tainties briefly falter and the possible flickers into view; not as a goal, but as an irritation along the way. Even the Romantics stumbled over roots in their landscapes or table legs in their interiors, and thus over a world in transition. Their wobbling suggested a worldview that em-braced contingency, uncertainty and processuality as conditions for insight. A gesture of resistance that prophetically foreshadowed the demystification of the modern world from bohemian to fauxhemian:
The savoir-faire of the 19th century gave way to the social ascent of commerce. Influence was no longer defined by origin, attitude or courtly finesse, but by capital and the ability to navigate and adapt to emerging structures. Over time, efficiency and Taylor-esque time management replaced the savoir-vivre until the here and now, where the savoir per se seems to be dispersing. Information technologies…
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To trip, to stutter or to spill something are moments in which cer-tainties briefly falter and the possible flickers into view; not as a goal, but as an irritation along the way. Even the Romantics stumbled over roots in their landscapes or table legs in their interiors, and thus over a world in transition. Their wobbling suggested a worldview that em-braced contingency, uncertainty and processuality as conditions for insight. A gesture of resistance that prophetically foreshadowed the demystification of the modern world from bohemian to fauxhemian:
The savoir-faire of the 19th century gave way to the social ascent of commerce. Influence was no longer defined by origin, attitude or courtly finesse, but by capital and the ability to navigate and adapt to emerging structures. Over time, efficiency and Taylor-esque time management replaced the savoir-vivre until the here and now, where the savoir per se seems to be dispersing. Information technologies…
