#aesthetics — Public Fediverse posts

“The unfinished Dewberry project has been a scar on downtown for far too long” #cville #Dewberry #DowntownMall #aesthetics http://www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/2664

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

wow, the kash patel "challenge coins" he painstakingly designed in his early tenure at #FBI are far worse than i ever could have imagined

these are the people who are constantly lecturing the left on the value of aesthetics and beauty

[edit] holy shit i just noticed the eyeballs are #spiders

#KashPatel #Kash #DOJ #uspol #uspolitics #punisher #badTaste #aesthetics #ChallengeCoin #challengecoins

I have uploaded a new version of my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] to archive.org.

The PDF of the new version is available immediately, and archive.org will re-generate the pages for the in-browser reader over the next few hours.

Changes:

• Improvements to several figures.
• Various small improvements to the text.
• Several minor corrections, including a number of reader-submitted ones.
• All end-of-line word hyphenations now follow the Oxford University Press standard. (The TeX/LaTeX #hyphenation algorithm does a good job, but is not perfect.)
• Many previously-bad page breaks have been adjusted.

#MathHist #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography

I have uploaded a new version of my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] to archive.org.

The PDF of the new version is available immediately, and archive.org will re-generate the pages for the in-browser reader over the next few hours.

Changes:

• Improvements to several figures.
• Various small improvements to the text.
• Several minor corrections, including a number of reader-submitted ones.
• All end-of-line word hyphenations now follow the Oxford University Press standard. (The TeX/LaTeX #hyphenation algorithm does a good job, but is not perfect.)
• Many previously-bad page breaks have been adjusted.

#MathHist #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography

I have uploaded a new version of my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] to archive.org.

The PDF of the new version is available immediately, and archive.org will re-generate the pages for the in-browser reader over the next few hours.

Changes:

• Improvements to several figures.
• Various small improvements to the text.
• Several minor corrections, including a number of reader-submitted ones.
• All end-of-line word hyphenations now follow the Oxford University Press standard. (The TeX/LaTeX #hyphenation algorithm does a good job, but is not perfect.)
• Many previously-bad page breaks have been adjusted.

#MathHist #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography

I have uploaded a new version of my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] to archive.org.

The PDF of the new version is available immediately, and archive.org will re-generate the pages for the in-browser reader over the next few hours.

Changes:

• Improvements to several figures.
• Various small improvements to the text.
• Several minor corrections, including a number of reader-submitted ones.
• All end-of-line word hyphenations now follow the Oxford University Press standard. (The TeX/LaTeX #hyphenation algorithm does a good job, but is not perfect.)
• Many previously-bad page breaks have been adjusted.

#MathHist #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography

I have uploaded a new version of my book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large] to archive.org.

The PDF of the new version is available immediately, and archive.org will re-generate the pages for the in-browser reader over the next few hours.

Changes:

• Improvements to several figures.
• Various small improvements to the text.
• Several minor corrections, including a number of reader-submitted ones.
• All end-of-line word hyphenations now follow the Oxford University Press standard. (The TeX/LaTeX #hyphenation algorithm does a good job, but is not perfect.)
• Many previously-bad page breaks have been adjusted.

#MathHist #MathematicalBeauty #aesthetics #typography

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I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

http://www.marginalutility.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aesthetic-dimension-_-marcuse.pdf

The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

In that same year....

#Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

"we should forego these things, because we need resources for better things"

just brilliant

#DieterRams #design #aesthetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyAg3Zbs_8

To the #CulturalTurn and back again: the relevance of #aesthetics to the possibility of sustainable #futures | Journal paper by
Anastasia Loukianov → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/s1/paper-al-aesthetics/
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cc #Sociology #Defamiliarization #SpectacularMundane #ConsumerAesthetics #SustainableConsumption

Thought I'd add some #theory hashtags in hope of connecting with others engaging with #CulturalTheory #PoliticalTheory #NonRepresentationalTheory (#NRT) or #philosophy of #geography.

I enjoy discussing #Foucault, #Benjamin, #Arendt, #Deleuze and #Guattari, #Ranciere, #Serres, as well as #feminist #NewMaterialisms, #CriticalRaceTheory, and #intersectionality.

Key theoretical themes include #affect #aesthetics #authority #power #landscape #performance #biopolitics #body #humour #violence #care