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Poetic concept
Negative capability is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion
Negative_capability
2018 studio album by Marianne Faithfull
Negative Capability is the twentieth studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull. It was released on 2 November 2018, and produced by Rob Ellis
Negative_Capability_(album)
English singer and actress (1946–2025)
recording new material for at least a year and a half. Faithfull's album Negative Capability, was released in November 2018. It featured Rob Ellis, Warren Ellis
Marianne_Faithfull
American poet
University of South Alabama in 1980. She founded the literary journal Negative capability in 1981 and served as its editor. Walker became an associate professor
Sue_Brannan_Walker
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures. He used the term negative capability to discuss the state of being in which we are "capable of being in
John_Keats
Chart, but it peaked at #16 on the UK Independent Albums Charts. Negative Capability did not enter the Billboard 200, but it peaked at number 38 on the
Marianne Faithfull discography
Marianne_Faithfull_discography
Debate in social sciences
varieties of this resistance are negative capability. Unlike other theories of structure and agency, negative capability does not reduce the individual
Structure_and_agency
1819 poem by John Keats
a personal poem which describes Keats' journey into the state of negative capability. The tone rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within
Ode_to_a_Nightingale
1819 poem by John Keats
melancholic as a writer." Negative capability appears subtly in "Ode on Melancholy" according to Harold Bloom, who describes the negatives in the poem as being
Ode_on_Melancholy
Form of literature
English Romantic poet John Keats termed this escape from logic "negative capability". This "romantic" approach views form as a key element of successful
Poetry
2016 live album by Marianne Faithfull
Language English Label earMusic Producer Claudia Lee Marianne Faithfull chronology Give My Love to London (2014) No Exit (2016) Negative Capability (2018)
No Exit (Marianne Faithfull album)
No_Exit_(Marianne_Faithfull_album)
Assessment of software development processes
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the
Capability_Maturity_Model
Phrase describing the poetry of William Wordsworth
truth. The egotistical sublime contrasts with Keats's perception of 'negative capability' which he believed to be the ideal and exemplified by the sonnets
Egotistical_sublime
Concept in continental philosophy
Enantiodromia Eroticism Limit situation Metanoia Michel Leiris Negative capability Negative theology R. D. Laing Roudinesco, Élisabeth (2005). Jacques Lacan
Limit-experience
British writer, novelist and poet (born 1949)
to other people’s stories as well as my own'." In her 2020 work, Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving, Roberts documents a period of crisis following
Michèle_Roberts
English psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
linking of −K. As his thought continued to develop, Bion came to use Negative Capability and the suspension of Memory and Desire in his work as an analyst
Wilfred_Bion
Control concept
Negative feedback (or balancing feedback) occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends
Negative_feedback
1965 song by Bob Dylan
sadness". In 2018, Faithfull recorded the song again for her album Negative Capability. In 1973 the song was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Record
It's_All_Over_Now,_Baby_Blue
Capacity of individuals to make free choices
Diversity training Empowerment Freedom of speech Gender empowerment Negative capability Paracosm Social action Social relation Structure and agency Theory
Agency_(sociology)
1950 book by Lionel Trilling
parallel sentence-structure may symbolize Trilling's dedication to the “negative capability” he encourages throughout the book, in which a thinker can hold two
The_Liberal_Imagination
Normative approach to human welfare
The capability approach (also referred to as the capabilities approach) is a normative approach to human welfare that concentrates on the actual capability
Capability_approach
American news website
honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to John Keats's negative capability. In an opinion piece in The Washington Times, Christopher J. Harper
Vox_(website)
American jazz guitarist
featuring Francois Grillot, Reggie Sylvester, and Matt Lavelle, released Negative Capability. He also worked with Jayne Cortez, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Jemeel
Bern_Nix
Acquired ability
capacity to be alone. Asociality Existentialism Good enough parent Negative capability Pascal Samuel Beckett Transitional object J. Kristeva, Melanie Klein
Capacity_to_be_alone
American literary critic and biographer (1918–1999)
A brief memoir of Bate by Robert D. Richardson appeared in 2013. Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats (1939; reprinted 1976, 2012). From
Walter_Jackson_Bate
American writer (1934–2020)
magazines, including Sewanee Review, Minnesota Review, Ms. Magazine, and Negative Capability. Her poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac sixteen times
Pat_Schneider
Natural and legal rights Nature Necessary and sufficient condition Negative capability Nonmaleficence Norm of reciprocity Norm Normative science Normativity
List of philosophical concepts
List_of_philosophical_concepts
Term referring to a social behaviour
silences profonds". Don't ask, don't tell Elephant in the room Innuendo Negative capability Praeteritio Proxemics Spiral of silence Subtext Tacit knowledge Unconscious
Unsaid
American poet
International Online, Black described disability poetics as a poetics of "negative capability" and "a kind of praise of vulnerability". She said that she began
Sheila_Black
Style of literary fiction and art
"meta-narration", "open-ended/expansive romanticism", and "imagination/negative capability". Surrealism is often confused with magical realism as they both
Magical_realism
2021 studio album by Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull
Carnage (2021) She Walks in Beauty (2021) La Panthère Des Neiges (2021) Marianne Faithfull chronology Negative Capability (2018) She Walks in Beauty (2021)
She_Walks_in_Beauty_(album)
Motion Picture Soundtrack CD 044 Operation: Break Even CD 045 Urinals Negative Capability...Check It Out! CD 046 Today Is the Day Today Is the Day CD, CS,
Amphetamine Reptile Records discography
Amphetamine_Reptile_Records_discography
unit, similar to an elision. Descriptive poetics Historical poetics Negative capability Pathetic fallacy Poetic diction Poetic license Porson's Law Resolution:
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
1938 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Nausea_(novel)
1977 television film written by Cormac McCarthy
matter, while at the same time thoroughly investigating it. Here was "Negative Capability" of a very high order. I was hooked. Pearce and McCarthy collaborated
The_Gardener's_Son
and task-executors in the workplace. Unger employs the concept of negative capability to describe the quality of freedom that emerges from liberating ourselves
Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory
Politics:_A_Work_in_Constructive_Social_Theory
American lawyer
condition, and thus an inevitable facet of the legal world as well. Negative capability Roberto Unger Mark Kelman, What Followed Was Pure Lesley (1973) Mark
Mark_Kelman
American academic
worldviews. He relates this stance to the way Keats referred to as negative capability. Ideally it furnishes one with a critical perspective on both one's
Vincent_Crapanzano
2017 studio album by Chastity Belt
sadder aesthetics and was "built on what John Keats defined as 'negative capability'". Two singles preceded the album's release: the lead single "Different
I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
I_Used_to_Spend_So_Much_Time_Alone
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
biography that Lincoln was endowed with the personality trait of negative capability, attributed to extraordinary leaders who were "capable of being in
Abraham_Lincoln
role responsiveness has also been highlighted. Analytic neutrality Negative capability W. R. Bion Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (1988). "Attention
Evenly_suspended_attention
Portrait". Point of View, May 25, 2024. Justin Anderson, "Feature drama Negative Capability rolls in Toronto". Playback, October 25, 2023. Kelly Townsend, "Radio-Canada
List of Canadian films of 2024
List_of_Canadian_films_of_2024
Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888–1969)
psychoanalyst. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Dorothy Burlingham Negative capability The Question of Lay Analysis P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 490 * Tréhel
Theodor_Reik
Overview of terms coined by the 20th-century German philosopher
letting-go, being-let, and letting-be. Scott, Nathan A. (1969). Negative Capability. Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation. New Haven
Heideggerian_terminology
Poems
that this provides the poem with a hint of Keats's philosophy of negative capability, as only the beauty that will die meets the poem's standard of true
John_Keats's_1819_odes
Genre of literature
creating multi-genre narratives, a process he likens to John Keats' negative capability. In Z213: Exit he combines, in a kind of a modern-day palimpsest
Experimental_literature
2009 film score by Mark Bradshaw
No. Title Artist(s) Length 1. "Negative Capability" Mark Bradshaw featuring Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw 3:55 2. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" Ben Whishaw
Bright_Star_(soundtrack)
American punk-rock band
Records) "Sex"/"Go Away Girl" (7-inch EP, 1980, Happy Squid Records) Negative Capability...Check It Out! (CD, 1996, Amphetamine Reptile Records, 2004, Warning
Urinals_(band)
he sets forth is one that has the best chance of harnessing the "negative capability" of human beings—that is, teaching the person "to move within contexts
The Critical Legal Studies Movement
The_Critical_Legal_Studies_Movement
American novelist and short story writer (born 1969)
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (1999). Eve of St. Agnes Award, Negative Capability (1997) Ruth Underhill Award, Denver Women's Press Club (1997) Come
Erika_Krouse
American poet and writer (born 1935)
The Georgia State University Review, 1977-78: "Blood Brother." Negative Capability: "Valentine's Day, 1982;" Volume VII, Numbers I & II, 1987. "Sewing;"
Rosemary_Daniell
Brazilian philosopher and politician
them open to resistance and change. This opposition Unger calls negative capability. This leads Unger to the conclusion that change happens piecemeal
Roberto_Mangabeira_Unger
Military and covert operations conducted outside Iran
Person's Story". Abdorrahman Boroumand Center. Retrieved 3 July 2025. "Negative Capability of Tolerance -the Assassination of Hitoshi Igarashr" (PDF). 1992
Iranian_external_operations
Species of bacterium
Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, nitrate-reducing, indole-negative bacterium. It shows swarming motility and
Proteus_mirabilis
Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
Salas, Angela M. (1 September 2003). "Race, Human Empathy, and Negative Capability: The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa". College Literature. 30 (4). The
Facing_It
2003 studio album by Medicine
Yrs" 4:35 7. "Astral Gravy" 2:56 8. "Good for Me" 3:56 9. "Negative Capability" Brad Laner 3:39 10. "Whiz" 3:36 11. "Sodden Rockets" Kid606, Brad
The_Mechanical_Forces_of_Love
Potential negative action or event facilitated by a vulnerability
can be either a negative "intentional" event like hacking or an "accidental" negative event or otherwise a circumstance, capability, action, or event
Threat_(computer_security)
Material with a negative refractive index
Negative-index metamaterial or negative-index material (NIM) is a metamaterial whose refractive index for an electromagnetic wave has a negative value
Negative-index_metamaterial
journalists and related organizations. Some automobiles received predominantly negative reception. There are no objective quantifiable standards, and cars on this
List of automobiles notable for negative reception
List_of_automobiles_notable_for_negative_reception
1819 poem by John Keats
In this way, the poems as a group capture Keats's philosophy of negative capability, the concept of living with unreconciled contradictory views, by
Ode_on_Indolence
American/French author
Paris Transcontinental, #7 spring 1993, prizewinner. Conch Salad, Negative Capability, vol XIV #3, 1995. Oasis, Tampa Review, 1996. French Love Affair
Gwen_Strauss
American poet, critic and scholar (born 1950)
January 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2018. "Modelling Australian Poetry | Negative Capability". Michellecahill.com. 4 February 2013. Archived from the original
Paul_Kane_(poet)
English photographer and installation artist
Research at BALTIC. Crisp's current research centres on the idea of Negative Capability – a phrase first used by the poet John Keats to describe a desirable
Fiona_Crisp
American writer (1942–2024)
Live With 1991–1992 Faculty Fellowship, University of Colorado 1993 Negative Capability Award for Fiction 1995 Spoon River Poetry Review Poetry Prize 1996
Marilyn_Krysl
Portuguese-American writer
ISBN 9780991378029) It's Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments (Negative Capability Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0942544329) Big Bad Asterisk* (BlazeVOX [books]
Carlo_Matos
1935 novel by George Santayana
little part. In an extraordinary act of artistic self-sacrifice, of negative capability, Santayana sets Oliver free to achieve his own destiny on his own
The_Last_Puritan
Ukrainian poet and writer
on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing" – Mobile, Alabama: Negative Capability Press, 1992, pages 647 (Lyubov Sirota: Charter VIII “With hope for
Lyubov_Sirota
Framework used to study social phenomena
and empowerment make change possible. Unger calls this empowerment negative capability. However, Unger adds that these outcomes are always reliant on the
Social_theory
Mystical Scientific Poem
Dianoia List of Persian-language poets and authors Logos Mysticism Negative capability Other (philosophy) Panpsychism Poetics (Aristotle) Praxis (process)
Philosophical_poets
Percentage of a sum of money charged for its use
maturities and convertibility costs, where cash provides immediate transaction capability with zero conversion costs. This preference creates a term structure of
Interest_rate
American poet, teacher
Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995) Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001) "3 new Chancellors named to
Linda_Gregerson
Era in English-language literature
important "for their discussion of his aesthetic ideas", including 'negative capability'". Keats has always been regarded as a major Romantic, "and his stature
Romantic literature in English
Romantic_literature_in_English
Book by Clive James
superior to. It was too various. What I had to offer was negative capability, a capability for submission to the medium. I was the first to submit myself
Visions_Before_Midnight
American singer
Spaceships "Planets Are Blasted" Blanket Music "Nice" Fancie "A Negative Capability" King Black Acid "Loves A Long Song" Loch Lomond "Paper The Walls"
Kaitlyn_ni_Donovan
What Would Franz Boas have thought about 9/11? On the Limits of Negative Capability. In Indigenous Visions, edited by Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Wilner
Michael_E._Harkin
expressed this idea in The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (1819). Keats Negative Capability John Keats, letter To J H Reynolds, 3 May 1818. see Colvin, SidneyJohn
Mansion_of_Many_Apartments
American poet
(v. 2, no. 1, 1983, p. 5) Yellow Silk (no. 6, winter 1983, p. 5) Negative Capability (v. 2, no. 4, fall 1982, p. 84) Pinchpenny (v. 3, no. 2, April/May
Howard_W._Robertson
Element of Japanese language
katsuyōkei; literally "conjugation forms"). This article lists those from the negative base (未然形, mizenkei), as well as the tentative base (推量形/意思形, suiryōkei/ishikei)
Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base)
Japanese_conjugation_(mizenkei_base)
Term for accelerations felt as weight in multiples of standard gravity
producing downward weight). In the same way, a negative-g force is an acceleration vector downward (the negative direction on the y axis), and this acceleration
G-force
American writer (born 1941)
has had short stories published in Cimarron Review, Confrontation, Negative Capability, Northwest Review, Redbook, and Seattle Review. Lyons was also a
Grant_Lyons
Light-sensitive material used in making electronics
object intensity modulation and it is a parameter that indicates the capability of an optical system. The following table is based on generalizations
Photoresist
American literary critic (1905–1975)
Letters of John Keats (1951), in which he defended Keats's notion of negative capability, as well as the introduction, "George Orwell and the Politics of
Lionel_Trilling
Literature. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1966. Negative Capability. Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation. New Haven
Nathan_A._Scott_Jr.
Canadian poet and children's writer (born 1951)
Award (Third Prize) for “The Remains Of Edward’s”, published in Negative Capability, Mobile, Alabama,1989 A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury, short-listed
Susan_Musgrave
19th-century English essayist and critic (1778-1830)
his career. Some of Keats's writing, particularly his key idea of "negative capability", was influenced by the concept of "disinterested sympathy" he discovered
William_Hazlitt
American painter
Angeles Review of Books, praised Miller for being a "master" of negative capability, the ability to work through and within a state of uncertainty. He
Allison_Miller_(artist)
American poet
Writers Voice, West Side Y, NY, NY 1988: Eve of St. Agnes Award, Negative Capability, Mobile, AL 1988: Ruth Lake Memorial Award, Runner‑up, Poetry Society
Renée_Ashley
American jazz musician
Daniel Carter and Matt Lavelle (Spiritual Power, 2004) With Bern Nix Negative Capability (Kitchen Records,2013) With Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
Matt_Lavelle
Species of bacterium
wastewater treatment plant of a petroleum refinery. B. petroleovorans has the capability to degrade cyclohexane and aromatic compounds such as toluene and m-cresol
Brachymonas_petroleovorans
Ginsberg. New York: Viking, 2006. Ginsberg, Allen (20 April 2013). "Negative Capability: Kerouac's Buddhist Ethic". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Archived
List_of_Buddhists
American poet (1954–2006)
and embrace the volatile spaces between illusion and reality. This negative capability, this ability to hold both the arduousness of existence and the possibilities
Kari_edwards
Written works of Alabama
Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry. Mobile, Ala.: Negative Capability Press, 2007. Don Noble, ed. A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from
Alabama_literature
Ability to act or change without constraint
is subject to capability and limited by the rights of others. Isaiah Berlin made a distinction between "positive" freedom and "negative" freedom in his
Freedom
Canadian academic and intelligence agent
(person or thing). The latter is explained via John Keats's notion of negative capability, which Whalley sees as a rhythm in the mind of the poet that moves
George_Whalley
Contemporary social theory
democracy Formative context Historical determinism Necessitarianism Negative capability Postanarchism Unger, Robero Mangabeira, False necessity: anti-necessitarian
False_necessity
Independent non-profit publisher
and was the recipient of an Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award from Negative Capability journal in 1993. A two-time Yale Series of Younger Poets finalist
Kaya_Press
Type of artificial neural network
years (2001-2008) on the rigorous proofs of ELM's universal approximation capability. In theory, any nonconstant piecewise continuous function can be used
Extreme_learning_machine
Disease-causing bacteria
in the recipient cell's DNA. Among pathogenic bacteria, transformation capability likely serves as an adaptation that facilitates survival and infectivity
Pathogenic_bacteria
American poet (born 1975)
Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Productions, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9821600-1-5 Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press, 2001) (2nd edition Bootstrap
Micah_Ballard
willing to obey their sexual partner's orders. Drugs also impair the capability to communicate sexual consent. Those who used marijuana reported an inability
Drugs_and_sexual_consent
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
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Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name ZIHNA means "spins."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ACHAK means "spirit."
Female
Native American
Native American Dakota name ZITKALA means "bird."
Female
Native American
Native American Sioux name WEEKO means "pretty."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABOOKSIGUN means "wildcat."
Female
Native American
Native American Sioux name WITASHNAH means "virginal."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABUKCHEECH means "mouse."
Male
Native American
Native American Navajo name ASHKII means "boy."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name YOKI means "rain."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name YAMKA means "blossom."
Male
Native American
Native American Hopi name CHOOVIO means "antelope."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name CHANSOMPS means "locust."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name WUTI means "woman."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ASKOOK means "snake."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name WAKI means "shelter."
Female
Native American
Native American name APONI means "butterfly."
Female
Native American
Native American Algonquin name WIKIMAK means "wife."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name CHOGAN means "blackbird."
Male
Native American
Native American Sioux name CHAYTON means "falcon."
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Demolishing Negative Energy
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Sun
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Ganga; Originated from the Lap (Janu) of Lord Vishnu; Daughter of Janu Rishi
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Yew Tree Valley
Girl/Female
Indian
Beautiful
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sight
Boy/Male
Indian
Well Wisher
Male
Icelandic
Icelandic form of Old Norse Folki, FYLKIR means "people, tribe."Â
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Parsi
Young; Grown Up
Female
Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Yiska, YISKAH means "one who beholds" or "one who looks out."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Resolute
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imp. & p. p.
of Negative
v. t.
To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
a.
Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
n.
The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
a.
Denying; renouncing; negative.
a.
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
n.
A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
a.
Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.
a.
Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.
a.
Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.
a.
Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
a.
Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.
a.
Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
a.
Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power.
a.
Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.
a.
Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.
n.
That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
a.
Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution.
a.
Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.
adv.
In a negative manner; with or by denial.