Tag: aesthetics
4 posts tagged "aesthetics".
The branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, taste, and the nature of art — and, more loosely, the felt quality of how things look, sound, and are arranged. On this blog aesthetics is treated as more than decoration: the environments we build and the objects we keep shape mood, attention, and the texture of daily life, which is why it overlaps with minimalism and the curation ethic of Marie Kondo. It connects to broader questions of meaning-making and consumerism — what we find beautiful is entangled with what we value and what we signal. Thinkers like Alain de Botton argue that beauty is a guide to the qualities we wish we had more of in ourselves.
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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Pound-for-pound The Beginning of Infinity has to be the densest collection of batshit-crazy ideas I've ever come across.
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2019 Spending Breakdown: The Year of Becoming a Fancy Bitch
After tracking all my expenses, I calculate that my lifestyle has inflated by 1.25x this year. Honestly... I’m kind of into it.
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Make Frugality Great Again!
The modern practice of frugality has become a funhouse-mirror perversion of the original virtue. What happened?
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Getting Rid of All Your Stuff Feels Like Taking a Big, Dreamy Dump
See also: Rasping dead skin off your feet, taking a tactical spew during a big night out, or achieving inbox zero. It's the same sort of deep satisfaction.
