{"id":278,"date":"2009-06-19T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:22:00","slug":"shop-class-as-soulcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/shop-class-as-soulcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop Class As Soulcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Sjvi-vtpmUI\/AAAAAAAAAss\/Pf_12pRl7A8\/s1600-h\/2009-06-19_tools.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 173px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Sjvi-vtpmUI\/AAAAAAAAAss\/Pf_12pRl7A8\/s400\/2009-06-19_tools.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349118550020299074\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/shop-class-as-soulcraft\">wonderful article, Shop Class as Soulcraft,<\/a> has been expanded into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594202230\/bethleecallbo-20\">book of the same name <\/a>that is on my short list of books to read.<\/p>\n<p>In this article at <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The New Atlantis<\/span>, Matthew B. Crawford compares today&#8217;s trend toward design that hides how it was made (automobiles which have &#8220;another hood under the hood&#8221;) with the full-disclosure philosophy of bygone Sears catalogues which used to include blown-up parts diagrams and schematics.<\/p>\n<p>He suggests that we resurrect the ideal of manual competence, and describes the goodness of concrete work which is integrated, diagnostic, individualistic and fulfilling. There&#8217;s a lot more; read the article. I&#8217;m going to read the book.<\/p>\n<p>This discussion has some parallels with what I&#8217;ve been thinking about the past couple of weeks: the fate of specialized manual tools in today&#8217;s world. I&#8217;ve been cleaning out my studio in preparation for a move. Over the past 24 years that we&#8217;ve been in this house, I&#8217;ve amassed duplicates of many of my tools. I&#8217;ve got a box started for Goodwill, but what is the use of sending a lettering guide (I have 2 extra) to Goodwill? How many customers will recognize this little piece of plastic as a valuable tool for calligraphers?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >Thanks to Dave Allen for mentioning this on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philobiblon.com\/\">Book Arts-L<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This wonderful article, Shop Class as Soulcraft, has been expanded into a book of the same name that is on my short list of books to read. In this article at The New Atlantis, Matthew B. Crawford compares today&#8217;s trend toward design that hides how it was made (automobiles which have &#8220;another hood under the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/shop-class-as-soulcraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shop Class As Soulcraft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-4u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}