If you’re a musician, writer, or other creative type, you’ve probably felt pressure at some point to cultivate a unique artistic “brand.” That could mean ...

Negative capability makes room for subtle experiences which, though important, would not come to a mind pressured, distracted, or otherwise unavailable 4. Overcoming alexithymia, difficulty ...

Key points Though negative capability may seem counterintuitive, sometimes the wisest thing is to allow experience to run its course. Benefits of negative capability may include building reflective ...

In a letter to his brothers in 1817, John Keats shared his admiration for Shakespeare’s “negative capability,” his capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable ...

Marianne Faithfull’s Negative Capability is a sonic death trap. Many of the songs are sad and depressing—and although pondering life and death can lead to great lyrics for some artists, writing them ...

The album’s inside artwork features pictures of, among others, William Burroughs and a young Faithfull with a young Bob Dylan before his manual typewriter – totems of negative capability in ...

Incredibly, it’s been nearly 40 years since Marianne Faithfull’s career renaissance began with the harrowing ice funk of 1979’s masterful “Broken English.” That album and its two successors were made ...