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  2. Everyday Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The neglect of aesthetic theory to consider the role of sensibility in everyday life was first pointed out by Katya Mandoki who in 1994 coined the word Prosaics [4] (drawing a distinction from Aristotle’s Poetics [5] focused on art) to denote a sub-discipline that would specifically inquire the aesthetics involved in daily activities emphasizing the styles and forms of expression in face-to ...

  3. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.

  4. Liminal space (aesthetic) - Wikipedia

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    The creepypasta showed an image exemplifying a liminal space—a hallway with yellow carpets and wallpaper—with a caption purporting that by "noclipping out of bounds in real life", one may enter the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors with nothing but "the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background ...

  5. Outline of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics – branch of philosophy and axiology concerned with the nature of beauty. What type of thing is an aesthetic? Aesthetics can be described as all of the ...

  6. Metaphysical aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    For example, he claimed that laughter comes into being when men silence their emotions and call nothing into play but their intelligence. [9] He uses as an example, when a man stumbles and falls, the passers-by laugh; however, they would not of laughed had he of chosen to sit down, instead they laugh because his sitting down is involuntary. [ 10 ]

  7. Cottagecore - Wikipedia

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    Cottagecore (sometimes referred to as countrycore or farmcore) [1] [2] is an aesthetic idealising rural life. Originally based on a rural European life, [3] it was developed throughout the 2010s and was first named cottagecore on Tumblr in 2018. [4] Cottagecore centres on traditional, rural, or pioneer aesthetics, through clothing, interior ...

  8. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    In France aesthetic speculation grew out of the discussion by poets and critics on the relation of modern art; and Boileau in the 17th century, the development of the dispute between the "ancients" and the "moderns" at the end of the 17th century by B. le Bouvier de Fontenelle and Charles Perrault, and the continuation of the discussion as to ...

  9. Applied aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics in cartography relates to the visual experience of map reading and can take two forms: affective responses to the map itself as an aesthetic object (e.g., considering a map to be "beautiful," or "interesting," or "frustrating"), and affective responses to the geographic subject of the map (e.g., considering the mapped landscape as ...