Ordinary Banana

I found one by @EvanCMalone https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=800 … - cf. Christopher Alexander’s “fit” @vgr

Why must you C.Alex everything Paradigm lock

it’s not “everything” it’s literally his independent aesthetic conclusion

Yeah yeah Fun fact: car companies have design people specifically focused on making sure doors close with a satisfying thunk I bet there’s product design literature on this. I suspect there’s a strong aural component. It’s a kind of anti-music, like anti-jokes.

why anti-music? a satisfying sound is more music than noise

There’s no tension-resolution thing going on. It’s just straight up resolution. Like anti jokes aren’t incoherent or unfunny, they just don’t set up and resolve a premise. But I’m not attached to the idea. Just seems to fall short of musicality.

I’d summarize it as something like “reading mind in the revelation of precise fit”

The design examples have precision of fit going on but the soap and other found-ritual examples seem to have significant messiness and imprecision In fact we might have here a perfect challenge for you: the oddly satisfying mess. Extra credit: involving mild destruction