There Is No New Aesthetics
17 hours ago
- Humanity has exhausted all basic cultural and aesthetic vectors, like exploring a complete game map.
- Every new movement is a combination of past ones, leading to a feeling of cultural stagnation.
- Responses to calls for new aesthetics often involve scaling up past movements with gigantism.
- Remixing existing ideas yields diminishing informational returns.
- All futurism has become retrofuturism because the future is already contained in the past.
- Truly new aesthetics may arise from transhuman or alien minds.