Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors
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Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to turn them into . . . this?

But the contemporary built environment is not the millennials’ legacy; it is their inheritance. They didn’t ask for cardboard modernism — they simply capitulate to its infantilizing aesthetic paradigm because there is no alternative. Or if there is an alternative, it’s between an $8 ice cream cone or an $11 ice cream cone (or a $49 ticket to the Museum of Ice Cream).

time to discuss everyone's favorite subject: aesthetics! is everything actually ugly? are aesthetic critiques of modern living fascist? that's for you to decide!

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Shit like this makes me think of that Tommy Tallarico house tour and how I felt that it was at least visually interesting, which is more than can be said for most interior design these days

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I had the same thought watching it. He was at least blowing his money on neat shit, not living in a minimalist apartment and getting $50 bowl cuts.