Aesthetics All the Way Down, Baby - By Sari Azout Aesthetics All the Way Down, Baby
Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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In the era of infinite creation and consumption, it’s not the technicality of individual works but the authorship of aesthetic frameworks through them that matters. Authoring an iconic aesthetic—creating, coining, and embedding it in culture—may be one of the last defining acts of human creativity. The aesthetic is the art now. The aesthetic is the... See more
Anu Atluru • Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Coining an Aesthetic)
The aesthetic is still with us, but in banal form, lacking religious solemnity. You can cuddle up to it at night or glance it in a museum. “Hey…”, it says. It can be awesome but never inspire awe. It has no higher power to appeal to and not much up its sleeve.
McKenzie Wark • Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century
Designing in a Post-Taste world
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