Editing Negative capability (section)

==In film, poems, songs, and popular culture==

[[Woody Allen]] introduces the concept into the dialogue of his film [[Manhattan (1979 film)]], primarily in a satirical, tongue-in-cheek manner.

In 2013, jazz guitarist [[Bern Nix]] released an album titled ''Negative Capability'', containing liner notes explaining Keats definition.

In 2018, the British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull released an album entitled ''[[Negative Capability (album)|Negative Capability]]''. 

In November 2020, the BBC broadcast the second instalment of the second series of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' based on the eponymous trilogy by Philip Pullman.<ref>His Dark Materials, Series 2: 2. The Cave: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000pk3m via @bbciplayer. See especially position 26.49</ref> Here the idea of negative capability is given great prominence. It is presented not as an idea, nor a theory, concept nor a thesis, but as a ''mood'' which the heroine Lyra is able to sink into, and which enables her special ability to read the rare and beautiful and truth-telling 'alethiometer', device that issues a code that cannot be understood by purely reductive means.