Aestheticization and Democratic Culture. Juliane Rebentisch In Superhumanity. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Num Pages: 235-
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The 1990s were dominated by debates about postmodernism, one strand of which was concerned with the so called “aestheticization of the life-world.” Wolfgang Welsch, for example, wrote inGrenzgänge der Ästhetik: “The facades get prettier, the shops more animated, the noses more perfect. But such aestheticization reaches deeper, it affects fundamental structures of reality as such.”¹ For aestheticization means “basically that the non-aesthetic is made aesthetic or is grasped as being aesthetic.”² However, what counts as aestheticization and which concept of the aesthetic is presupposed can vary, as he goes on to explain: In the context of an urban environment,
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	abstract = {The 1990s were dominated by debates about postmodernism, one strand of which was concerned with the so called “aestheticization of the life-world.” Wolfgang Welsch, for example, wrote inGrenzgänge der Ästhetik: “The facades get prettier, the shops more animated, the noses more perfect. But such aestheticization reaches deeper, it affects fundamental structures of reality as such.”¹ For aestheticization means “basically that the non-aesthetic is made aesthetic or is grasped as being aesthetic.”² However, what counts as aestheticization and which concept of the aesthetic is presupposed can vary, as he goes on to explain: In the context of an urban environment,},
	language = {eng},
	booktitle = {Superhumanity},
	publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
	author = {{Juliane Rebentisch}},
	collaborator = {{Nick Axel} and {Mark Wigley} and {Nikolaus Hirsch} and {Anton Vidokle} and {Beatriz Colomina}},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.5749/j.ctt1zctt3b.31},
	note = {Num Pages: 235-},
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