/lit/ - Literature

>>16681657

>>16594660
Yes. Excellent post.
Among the most fundamental convictions is the attempt here to marry something like a competitive paideia with institutionalized aesthetic “play,” wrapped in loose community. Again, utopian and idealistic, but it is absolutely there.
Even this minor competition has proven to be among the most popular outreach attempts yet. Expanding this idea is, as you point out, instrumental to the overall success of the effort.
Your sense of the importance of quality is equally true. We have just begun to calibrate our images for various platforms; i am convinced by offering simply a true and quality alternative to what is out there, a new aesthetic that tries deliberately at something like its own minor art form, that it will attract a following, however small and dedicated.

As to your question concerning the development of great cities, i can think of no greater tract on the topic than “The Idea of the City in Roman Thought” by Lidia Mazzolani.

What is your stake in something like this, anon? What informs your convictions here? You seem properly informed and properly motivated.