Hmm can vitalism be refactored as an aesthetic? As a non-empiricist metaphysics it’s a non-starter in 2018.
Like stream of consciousness, but for any process, not just literature.
A post-biomorphic aesthetic of organic as opposed to mechanistic systems.
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Vitalism is one of the most popular aesthetics, see Walking Dead, 28 Days later, Resident Evil, World War Z, ...
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The demise of vitalism came by replacing vis vitalis with homeostatic metabolism. If you remove this principle from the organism and reintroduce vis vitalis, you get zombies!

