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A Great Cosmic Joke: The Hilarious Human Body
Human beings are clumsy, hairless monkeys obsessed with looking beautiful. How is that not funny? ___ For as long as I can remember, I have found the emotion of awkwardness to be endlessly amusing....
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The Civil War between Street Artists and Taggers
Comparing what a street artist does to what a tagger does is like comparing what Caravaggio did with a canvas to what a dog does to a fire hydrant. The Renaissance master brought beauty into the...
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The Photographer as Travel Agent
Bad photographs are a corrupting influence upon the imagination. They tell us lies about the world—pernicious, photoshopped lies—which make the real world, the only one we ever really have, seem bland...
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De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: There’s no Accounting for Taste
Embed from Getty Images Why do we frequently find it hard to give a rational account of our aesthetic judgments? ___ We say “de gustibus non est disputandum” (there’s no accounting for taste) when...
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Let’s Talk About Nipples
Embed from Getty Images Excuse me a minute, but can I say “nipple?” It’s a word we don’t say much, especially in mixed company, but, well, it’s kind of important. In all the conversations I’ve had...
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Professor Anthony Pinn on Gender, Race, and Humanism
Embed from Getty Images — Professor Anthony Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities at Rice University. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University, and M.Div. and Ph.D. in the study...
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When Did Aesthetics Become Unmanly?
When and how did the concept of masculinity turn its back on art, design, and beauty? —- A while back, I was playing around with one of those joke internet quizzes, this one supposed to diagnose...
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Minimalism is More Than Just a Style
— Specifically, I look at how certain minimalists have increasingly used minimalism as an aesthetic choice over recent years. Ultimately, minimalism needs to be renegotiated as a pro-environment and...
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Talking Modern Day Beauty Standards with Aesthetic Medicine Expert, Dr....
— Beauty standards change every year, features that were considered as the gold standard 5 years ago are no longer on people’s wish list. A clear example of this is how the desire of having fuller lips...
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Stand Tall
In Aikido class, I practiced kotegaeshi (wristlock) and shihonage (arm bar) for the uke (attacker) grabbing my wrist: their right hand to my right wrist; their left hand to my left wrist. Being a...
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How Beards Put a Brave Face on Threatened Masculinity
By Christopher R Oldstone-Moore In the West, for many centuries, shaving has identified a good man properly oriented to a higher order, whether divine or political. Defying this regulation meant being...
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Why More Men Are Getting Into Facial Aesthetics
— When you search for facial aesthetics online, the results are usually aimed at women. Historically, women have been the biggest consumers of skincare, cosmetic surgery, and anti-aging procedures, but...
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Rebel, Reframe, Rewild
In sustainability debates the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle are often featured as a useful sustainable trinity. However, in my books Aesthetic Sustainability and Anti-trend, I focus on...
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Sensory Deprivation
When I talk about the importance of reducing consumption radically (which I often do), I am often asked: how can I do that? (which is of course a very fair question) My answer is that besides...
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‘Pantry Porn’ on TikTok and Instagram Makes Obsessively Organized Kitchens a...
By Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels. Wicker baskets filled with packages of pasta, crackers and snacks. Rows of flavored seltzer...
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Resilient Aesthetics: How to Create Aesthetically Nourishing Design Products...
Resilient aesthetics and resilient beauty are terms that immediately sound like oxymorons, as beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences and objects tend to connote something fleeting, transient,...
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The Art of Surgical Transformation: Jerome Donald Chao’s Personal Journey to...
— When it comes to aesthetic surgeries, you cannot just trust anyone. Since they are not a new concept anymore, one can easily find a plastic surgeon anywhere. But how many truly understand the art...
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The Psychology Behind Aesthetic Medicine: Understanding Patient Motivations
— The intersection of psychology and aesthetic medicine is a fascinating domain that extends far beyond the realms of healthcare and beauty. It encompasses a wide range of motivations and desires,...
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Could Aesthetics Solve the Climate Crisis?
This summer, while in Denmark, I was interviewed by a lovely journalist for an anthology on sustainable consumption and fashion — my focus being aesthetic sustainability. I have just received the...
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Blurry, Morphing and Surreal – A New AI Aesthetic Is Emerging in Film
By Holly Willis, University of Southern California Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not...
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