beauty
In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
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Beauty, or our idea of it, is always rooted in deep desires, capitulations, and pathologies. It makes certain things so obvious. How we spend the present trying to secure the future, and thus squander what’s in front of us. How we fail to appreciate what we may later understand as an experience of unbelievable plenty: unlined skin, spare time on Sa
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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.
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Real beauty has all kinds of deep shadows, it is not just bright flickers of color. Go and look at a Rodin sculpture and you will feel the gravity of beauty.
Andrew Sweeny • Beauty
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