Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“[There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“Institutional changes, instead of following the path of a guided arrow, head in different and often conflicting directions: a profitable operating unit is suddenly… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality through experiences… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“The top managers are defensive about these departures; they point to how safe, attractive, and up-to-date the workplace is. Rodney Everts is less defensive… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited;… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“At the end of the fifteenth century, the poet Thomas Hoccleve declared in The Regiment of Princes, “Allas, wher ys this worldes stabylnesse?”—a lament… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“Who needs me?” is a question of character which suffers a radical challenge in modern capitalism. The system radiates indifference. It does so in… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett Copy Share
