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Are All Our Instincts Natural? (opens the original)
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Hello Aesthetics Advocates!I have had a busy month giving talks, workshops, and working toward finishing my second book, Is Your Business Beautiful? Instead of a full post here, I wanted to link to one of my popular articles on the Aesthetics Research Lab website: Performative Beauty and Knowledge by Connaturality.We often talk about instincts and reflexes as if they are fixed from birth. This seems confirmed when we touch something hot and immediately pull away our hand. Some responses are auto
Do We Have a Duty to Develop Our Taste? (opens the original)
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Dear Aesthetics People!Much of what we call taste is actually familiarity. We know what we like because we consume more of it. We make a habit of going back to familiar things, and the cycle continues. AI has made this process easier. It can learn our preferences and continue to feed us more of the same, dressed up as novelty. Just by getting a list of good works of art, music, literature, or movies does not mean we understand what specifically makes them good or why one is better than another.
Developing Taste in the Age of AI: Part 4 (opens the original)
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Attention teaches us to see. Exposure gives us more to see. But neither, by itself, teaches us how to distinguish what we are seeing.That is where comparison becomes essential.Suppose you purchased a new album. After the first listen, you might have an initial preference, but that doesn’t really say much. There are different kinds of reasons why one song might stand out initially. Then, when you listen more, you might notice subtleties that were less obvious the first time, such as a particular
The Tensegrity Organization (opens the original)
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Performance art is probably one of the most misunderstood movements of contemporary art. It might sometimes feel like the audience is merely being punked by an artist. Yet it finally received more notable recognition when MoMA put on a retrospective of the work of Marina Abramović in 2010, where Abramović also performed a new work called The Artist Is Present. People stood in line for hours to sit silently across from the artist for a few moments or hours, as long as they wanted.Here I want to b
26. History of Aesthetics: Kant - Part 2 (opens the original)
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Immanuel Kant turned the discussions about taste that dominated the 18th century into discussions about judgment. We explored his notions of what makes judgments about beauty possible in the previous entry in this series. According to Kant, beauty involves a distinctive kind of pleasure, one that is disinterested yet carries an expectation of shared agreement.But now we turn to how Kant thought great art was possible. In other words, what can we say or know about the things that give rise to the
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