The Infernal Technique

I wrote1 last year of my misgivings about the “New” Romanticism by recounting what appeared to me the unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable) problems of the original romantic project. What does the new medicine propose as cure for the old mal du siècle? I’m unsure anyone has provided an adequate answer, but another of my resolutions is never to suffer unnecessarily the despondency of inaction. My caution is not only unwarranted, but ill-advised; since for various reasons, not least of which the increasing thinness of time, I’ve come to realise how high the stakes are.