A thread of aesthetic movements I'm observing.
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Capitalist chic. Regeneration of banal consumer iconography. Cluttered type that calls to mind industrial labeling is a hallmark. "the commodity as form" as
@tobyshorin has termed it.https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1189963201867341824?s=20 …nicole added,
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Techno-dystopic art A recent surge in art that seeks specifically to capture the sensory experience of modern advertising and/or the juxtaposition of universal, bland tech-minimalism w. finely aged classical aesthetics https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1191394113817628673?s=20 …https://twitter.com/pieratt/status/1191227472601341952 …
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for further clarification on the universal, tech-minimalism i'm referring to - see this excellent thread by
@pangmelihttps://twitter.com/pangmeli/status/1126492761451114498?s=20 …nicole added,
fangmeli @pangmelia really good related essay is this one about "airspace" (sometimes called "contemporary") — that uniform, ubiquitous gentrification-chic aesthetic that embodies the sinister silicon valley virtue of "frictionless" design (h/t@mcmansionhell) https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
Algorithms & taste. “Philosophers in the 18th century defined taste as a moral capacity, an ability to recognize truth and beauty. Displacing the judgment of taste partly to algorithms, Robs us of some of that humanity.”https://www.vox.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look …
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Europeans still recognize taste as a moral capacity. Bad taste is typically American
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