I've long thought that the two main sensibilities you can bring to any activity are a) romantic b) classical. I now think there's a third sensibility, associated with how an activity is pursued in a sort of domestic/hobby/amateur mode. I don't know what to call it.
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In romanticism, energy of poiesis runs ahead of formal discipline. In classicism the reverse is true. The hobbyist sensibility though, has "discipline" in a different sense, and it has a poiesis energy that is somehow quiet and contained, yet still messy and unruly wrt discipline
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The idea that the hobbyist sensibility is not serious, or in some way dilettantish or lower-skilled is not true. There can be ferocious focus and extreme capability at work.
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Perhaps the main difference is that the hobbyist sensibility lacks a public, historicist ambition. It is content for whatever it accomplishes to be forgotten. This takes something out of the public versions of the same activities.
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For a while, I thought the hobbyist sensibility lacked a strong praxis component. After all, it tends to gravitate towards snowflakey enrichment/play activities. But this again is not true. Many hobbyist activities involve really tricky practical problems.
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For example, hobby electronics involves all the messy practicality and real-world crap of professional electronics as an employee at a corporation. I think the difference is lack of deadlines.
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The hobbyist sensibility is "I'm not trying to make history or even money. This will take as long as it takes."
So perhaps, the 2x2 here is classicist vs. romantic and with/without deadlines. Though I think hobbyist sensibilities tend to romantic-without-deadlines.
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Hobbyists who enjoy the practice of the craft more than the result would fit in the classical/without deadlines box

