Art & Imagination
Post-ironic, sincere, and imaginal aesthetics in a fatigued culture We are living through the long afterburn of irony. For the past few decades, irony has been the dominant aesthetic posture in Western culture. It has shaped our humor, our politics, our fashion, and even our art. To be ironic was
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How taste is coded, conditioned, and contested We are taught that beauty is personal. A matter of taste. A subjective response to form, texture, color, symmetry, or style. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” we’re told. But this is only half true. Because behind every taste lies
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Beyond aesthetics—creativity as epistemology Art is often relegated to the realm of feeling. We associate it with beauty, expression, emotion—important, yes, but secondary to the “real” work of thinking. Thinking is for philosophers and scientists. Art is for galleries. But this division is not only false. It is
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How the act of creation can be a philosophical or spiritual practice We live in a culture obsessed with outcomes. Products over process. Results over rituals. “What did you make?” takes precedence over “What did it make of you?” But what if the act of making—of writing, painting, composing,
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A look at design as both propaganda and possibility Design is everywhere—but rarely seen. It shapes our cities, our software, our furniture, our fonts. It dictates the flow of attention, the contours of experience, the boundaries of access. It is both invisible and intimate, woven into the fabric of