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Much like in music, I find this hyper-specific genre-mania is ultimately just tiring. Regressive retromania that leads to pastiche and revivalism at best.
by ideasphere 3y ago
Much like in music, I find this hyper-specific genre-mania is ultimately just tiring. Regressive retromania that leads to pastiche and revivalism at best.
- confd 3y agoSimilarly, I don't mind the concept of "aesthetic" when applied to products, like Frutiger Aero. But once it crosses over to what amounts to short-term identities or "identities in flux" I am repulsed.
- ideasphere 3y agoI agree 100%. Style is important but it’s the personal identification with defining and policing its microscopic fluctuations that ultimately leads nowhere but back at the snakes head. The older I get and the most first-hand experience I have, the more I realise it’s an obsession of those not burdened with this. The broad strokes are there but it’s ultimately myth making – seeking to squish the square peg of history into the round hole of a neat narrative.
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