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!

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    like the modernism bit is always fun, like architecture is really weird as an art because it can't escape reality, building is expensive and who owns the land decides what is built, but like ugly and pretty are too subjective. Architecture was the first to get hit hard by reality, like before the samey marvel movie, or the corporate art stuff, this discussions was already there, because what can be built is much more of a political discussion than a aesthetic one, so "are aesthetic critiques of modern living fascist? " not really it is just that it is a subjective discussion that is kinda pointless, especially when the fash do it, because they are part of the reason why this happens, their ideology is the one that makes cities ugly,