Crisp s current research centres on the idea of Negative Capability a phrase first used by the poet John Keats to describe a desirable state of uncertainty and doubt.
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Keats idea is used by Crisp to pursue the photographic object as an unstable and deeply equivocal phenomenon as evidenced in her recent installation, Negative Capability : The Stourhead Cycle for Matt's Gallery, London.
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Donald repeatedly tells us about Lincoln's reluctance " to be out in front of public opinion, " his preference for responding " to the actions of others " and his " negative capability ."
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In another letter to Reynolds the following May, he contrived the metaphor of'the chamber of maiden thought'and the notion of the'burden of mystery', which together express much the same idea as that of negative capability:
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The critic William V . Spanos has used Sartre's novel as an example of " negative capability ", a presentation of the uncertainty and dread of human existence, so strong that the imagination cannot comprehend it.
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Rosenbaum is not quite one of those seekers; he has, as he puts it, too much of " what Keats called negative capability _ the ability to abide uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts without succumbing to the temptation of premature certainty ."
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Or was it by 1818, when Coleridge and Hazlitt had both weighed in and Keats had coined the term " Negative Capability, " meaning Shakespeare's capacity for " being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason "?
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Or was it by 1818, when Coleridge and Hazlitt had both weighed in and Keats had coined the term " Negative Capability, " meaning Shakespeare's capacity for " being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & AMP; reason "?
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Unlike other theories of structure and agency, " negative capability " does not reduce the individual to a simple actor possessing only the dual capacity of compliance or rebellion, but rather sees him as able to partake in a variety of activities of self empowerment.
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"The Economist ", commenting on Klein's launching essay " How politics makes us stupid, " said the website was " bright and promising " and the premise behind the site was " profoundly honourable, " and positively compared the site's mission to John Keats's negative capability.
