liminal sadness is my favorite sadness
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burial aestheticizes that particular banal sadness (he has a track named "in mcdonalds": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI6nfACLPKQ …)
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I think the aestheticism helps with sharing the experience or provides a gathering point for it. Cherry blossom viewing in Japan is another example. Empty airport terminals are socially acceptable, but not glorified.
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Gothic music is about existential angst and misanthropic cynicism/nihilism than it is about sadness. It’s more like impotent rage.
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So the question that begs to be asked is if that same existential angst could be brought to the design of airports or gas stations. There could be a new market here.
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Most high-profile attempts at encapsulating that banality have been produced by too narrow a group for it to catch on as a wider socially acceptable mode (hence the need for aestheticization & ironic remove toward them). I suspect that the group of producers is broadening, though
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the banal can be comforting. at least I sometimes find it so. malls and other workplaces after hours. battlefields. places aren't inherently sad. projecting our sadness upon an environment isn't the only option. we choose which stories (and their feelings) to attach to a site.
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but I wonder if i'm wrong. architects make cathedrals to inspire awe and make you feel small inside something much larger and stronger. confessionals are intimate, shadowy to promote trust and anonymity. who designs for ennui, sadness, remorse, despair?
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