Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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Attempts to create objective fitness functions to judge aesthetics in have, for the most part, failed. And successful aesthetic fitness functions have tended to be for very specific needs and do not generalize well.
Martindale also introduces higher forms of cognition as important and frequently dominating aspects of aesthetic experience.
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... See moreThe Great Diminishment has several causes. (The internet, social media, apathy, etc., all play a role. I’ve written more about how “everyone is numbing out.”) But a big cause is what I’ll call the “venture capitalization” of culture, where as much cost is squeezed out of every nook and cranny as possible, while prices remain the same or higher. You... See more