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Aesthetics of Labor (opens the original)
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This Substack is by David Perrine. I write about architecture, aesthetics, design theory, and philosophy. If you enjoy my work, please consider subscribing.The peacock’s tail is strange. At first glance, its great fan of brightly lit eyes seems excessive and far beyond what it needs to survive. Before evolutionary explanation, such creatures could only have appeared inexplicable. Such peculiarities seemed like fairy tales to those who heard of such creatures without directly witnessing one. But
Poetic Efficiency (opens the original)
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This Substack is by David Perrine. I write about architecture, aesthetics, design theory, and philosophy. If you enjoy my work, please consider subscribing.<img alt="Marcel Duchamp's readymade: "In Advance of the Broken Arm"" cla
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