Can Beauty Be A Source Of Joy?
On Beauty and Being Just
Exploring the relationship between beauty, consciousness, errors in perception, and the role of beauty in education, using examples from art, literature, and philosophy.
attachments.are.naBeauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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Sterling Proffer and added
What if beauty was just our name for experiences that push us out of our mental ruts and burst open our reducing valves of consciousness?
Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture
Debbie Foster and added
The Cultural Tutor perfectly sums up why beauty matters: “what’s the danger of a world without beauty?” they ask. “If everything is simply functional, simply useful, then life becomes a mere conveyor belt. It turn humans into machines of consumption, labour, & reproduction. Aren’t we more than that?”
Cultivating a Vibe
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“beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests.”
Dating After Divorce Wasn't What They Said It'd Be — Gloria
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