With good written prompts there’s a way, perhaps, I hope, of pushing kitsch so far that it becomes something strange and alluring, even moving.

Reading art criticism can make a person feel nauseous, fatigued, and generally unwell. Eye strain and headaches are common. Cybersickness symptoms could be dangerous. For instance, symptoms like severe headache, eye strain or dizziness could affect your coordination and attention.

Menninghaus presented the results of a research project that is being developed with the goal of establishing "being moved" and "being touched" as concepts of genuine emotion and revealing their role in aesthetic appreciation. According to the researcher, “this includes a novel perspective on the time-honored issue of aesthetic pleasure associated with negative emotions."

Philosophers have often been skeptical about the place of empirical investigation in aesthetics. However, in recent years many philosophical aestheticians have turned to cognitive science to enrich their understanding of their subject matter. Cognitive scientists have, in turn, been inspired by work in philosophical aesthetics. Philosophical aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which explores issues having to do with art, beauty, and related phenomena.

The origins of the contemporary debate about the definition of art can be traced back to Weitz's ‘The Role of Theory in Aesthetics,’ where he argues that it is logically impossible to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the category of art because it has an ‘expansive, adventurous character’.

There’s an absurdity to modern existence that’s difficult to articulate. The more you use apps like Twitter, the more the lexicon of the internet becomes part of your real-life vocabulary, while all the inanity of reality is reported about and read on social media. You can call it an ouroboros loop, but it feels a lot more like a circle jerk, with people passing the same nonsense back and forth trying to find meaning in it.

When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.”

Aestheticians typically focus on a range of different properties which fall under the label ‘aesthetic’ (beauty, elegance, vibrancy, etc.). By contrast, much of the experimental work focuses on simple judgments of preference or liking. As such, some might object that philosophers and cognitive scientists are merely talking past each other. To some extent this is correct. Mere judgments of liking are typically not of much interest within aesthetics because aestheticians tend to hold that aesthetic judgments have a normative dimension and it is widely held that ‘while some normative notions may be explainable in terms of others, we cannot express normative notions in non-normative terms.’

The artworld is a hyper-capitalist environment where wealthy individuals, ranging from (higher middle class) millionaires to (Davos level) billionaires, like to gamble over “the next big artist”. As these speculators need museums and other public institutions to validate the art, and as these institutions are drenched in critical theory on all possible levels (art-historians, curators, the people who become managers and directors, etc.), and as these rich people can, on a very basic level, go along with critical theory from a sort of default protestant-capitalist-charity mindset, and as they invest in these public institutions, the result is a huge and well-funded propaganda machine. In Holland, numerous major protest movements against colonialism and the patriarchy actually started out in contemporary art museums. The iconoclastic call for renaming streets and taking down statues, for example, started decades ago in Witte de With, a contemporary art institution in Rotterdam. 

With good written prompts there’s a way, perhaps, I hope, of pushing kitsch so far that it becomes something strange and alluring, even moving.

Reading art criticism can make a person feel nauseous, fatigued, and generally unwell. Eye strain and headaches are common. Cybersickness symptoms could be dangerous. For instance, symptoms like severe headache, eye strain or dizziness could affect your coordination and attention.

Menninghaus presented the results of a research project that is being developed with the goal of establishing "being moved" and "being touched" as concepts of genuine emotion and revealing their role in aesthetic appreciation. According to the researcher, “this includes a novel perspective on the time-honored issue of aesthetic pleasure associated with negative emotions."

Philosophers have often been skeptical about the place of empirical investigation in aesthetics. However, in recent years many philosophical aestheticians have turned to cognitive science to enrich their understanding of their subject matter. Cognitive scientists have, in turn, been inspired by work in philosophical aesthetics. Philosophical aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which explores issues having to do with art, beauty, and related phenomena.

The origins of the contemporary debate about the definition of art can be traced back to Weitz's ‘The Role of Theory in Aesthetics,’ where he argues that it is logically impossible to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the category of art because it has an ‘expansive, adventurous character’.

There’s an absurdity to modern existence that’s difficult to articulate. The more you use apps like Twitter, the more the lexicon of the internet becomes part of your real-life vocabulary, while all the inanity of reality is reported about and read on social media. You can call it an ouroboros loop, but it feels a lot more like a circle jerk, with people passing the same nonsense back and forth trying to find meaning in it.

When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.”

Aestheticians typically focus on a range of different properties which fall under the label ‘aesthetic’ (beauty, elegance, vibrancy, etc.). By contrast, much of the experimental work focuses on simple judgments of preference or liking. As such, some might object that philosophers and cognitive scientists are merely talking past each other. To some extent this is correct. Mere judgments of liking are typically not of much interest within aesthetics because aestheticians tend to hold that aesthetic judgments have a normative dimension and it is widely held that ‘while some normative notions may be explainable in terms of others, we cannot express normative notions in non-normative terms.’

The artworld is a hyper-capitalist environment where wealthy individuals, ranging from (higher middle class) millionaires to (Davos level) billionaires, like to gamble over “the next big artist”. As these speculators need museums and other public institutions to validate the art, and as these institutions are drenched in critical theory on all possible levels (art-historians, curators, the people who become managers and directors, etc.), and as these rich people can, on a very basic level, go along with critical theory from a sort of default protestant-capitalist-charity mindset, and as they invest in these public institutions, the result is a huge and well-funded propaganda machine. In Holland, numerous major protest movements against colonialism and the patriarchy actually started out in contemporary art museums. The iconoclastic call for renaming streets and taking down statues, for example, started decades ago in Witte de With, a contemporary art institution in Rotterdam.