Any books, texts or writers that talk about this? Im not sure what the name for this is, the notion that everything in reality is reducible at its most essential level to its aesthetic qualities, maybe to a singular aesthetic axiom, and there is nothing beyond that. Maybe something like aesthetic monism?
>>24922571Nietzsche's works basically attest to this, if not explicitly but implicitly.
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>>24922582could you elaborate a bit? How does he attest to this? Ive only read zarathustra
>>24922628I'll get back to you, I have to meet with my academic advisor in five minutes.
>>24922728ok, good luck with ur advisor
>>24922728>>24922831He won’t be able to respond any time soon, sorry OP.t. Gay sadistic advisor
You posted a print by M.C. Escher. Escher is known for his optical illusions but not held in high esteem in the art world. Something like picrel is remarkable because it's a 2d representation of an impossible 3d object and not what i would call aesthetic qualities.
>>24922883>M.C. Escher is not held in high esteem in the art worldI'd say that statement is less true now than it was 25-50 years ago and will be even less true in the future. Other than that I agree with you.
>>24922883yea idgaf faggot, this is anime website, most people on here, including you I bet, know nothing about visual fine art, as evidenced by there being no serious visual and plastic art board. So dont pretend Escher, who btw is a pretty important figure in the graphic arts canon and whose surreal works are not "optical illusions" but rather play with mathematics, patterns and impossible geometry, is in any way bellow the artistic sensibilities of yourself and this retarded gay board.I posted the picture I did because i felt it an adequate visual complement to the question and topic i wish to discuss, in a pretty straight forward and accessible way, not to impress your faggot ass. This is why everyone hates you behind your back irl.
>>24923012I said that it's remarkable, i didn't denigrate Escher at all but I don't see how "everything is aesthetics" and even (other work by) the artist of your image shows that it isn't IMO.
>>24922582Came here to say this, forgot where it may’ve been, maybe Beyond Good and Evil, or The Gay Science, or multiple of his works, where he has some section on “the world as essentially an aesthetic phenomenon.”
>>24922628The Ubermensch is simply a man who founds his own culture. As per Stirner, the Ubermensch doesn't base this culture upon anything but his own personal tastes. Ergo, all culture he makes is aesthetic in origin.
>>24923044You dont even understand the premise of the discussion, retard. You are confounding aesthetic qualities for subjective positive aesthetic value. Everything has aesthetic qualities, ugliness is an aesthetic quality, for example. Do you understand what im saying? For something to be devoid of aesthetic qualities it would have to be something like a completely empty, featureless object.>>24923047interesting, ill try to find this>>24923252I agree with this moral framework, but i dont think this is limited to the Ubermensch. I would argue all culture and anything produced by anyone, even if it is not based on their personal taste, could be aesthetic in origin. As would be the case with science, for example.
everything is what you can perceive through your senses. sounds like reverse platonism. aesthetics are shallow though. guess i'm with plato on this one
>>24923439Why are aesthetics shallow? Also aesthetics are more than empirical sense data, they are emergent
>>24923439The Greeks didn’t understand reason and their philosophy was largely egomaniacal and thus delusional. Only Heraclitus and Sextus Empiricus approached the boundaries of their false assumption, but didn’t get outside of it.
>>24922831okay I'm back, uh, well read Birth Of Tragedy. it should have been the first Nietzsche you read. its his meditation on Greek art and architecture.
>>24922896my band's old bassist was a huge Escher fan. he was into Pynchon, too and now is married to a black girl. He thinks his father is racist because of this.
