Ethics is now overburdened partly because nihilistic relativism erodes all other non-pragmatic forms of value: e.g. religious and aesthetic.
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@Meaningness ...in place of the cultural machinery of sophisticated universalism, pop aesthetics has empirical orientation 'I like this'. -
@St_Rev I think this is a good point, but also that it is more complicated than that in both cases. - 5 more replies
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@Meaningness but doesn't end the art market, which soon replaces the absent discussion.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness@hokaisobol Ends it for subsidized art, where aesthetics devolve into signalling games. Comics, pop music carry on with vigor.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness@hokaisobol Portraiture, sculpture, chamber music are high-status; empirical feedback is weak, social gaming strong.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness@hokaisobol It's not that things need to be grounded in materialist economics, but that materialist economics is an example...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness@hokaisobol ...of a living, healthy system of experience. There are other options but they'll look similar in some respects.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness In your terminology, high-modernist aesthetics falls into the trap of nihilist relativism, pop aesthetics is immune, bc... -
@Meaningness (so obv. when I said 'immune' here I was totally wrong and didn't even believe what I was saying, bad rev)
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