Word: aestheticized
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No wonder Harvard students are so anxious to stamp their passports. Study abroad has everything we’ve come to desire in life. It’s intrepid. It’s photogenic. It’s got all the aesthetic attendants of multiculturalism. Sometimes it’s...
How do these artists justify such gruesome excesses? The possibility of an aesthetic justification is out of the question, after all—it’s not as if there’s anything beautiful about the slow starvation of a mangy mutt or in the minced guts of...
In 1936, Walter Benjamin wrote that, “[Mankind’s] self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” He was referring to the mass popularity of the Nazi aesthetic. This...
Syncopated beats slam in a one-dimensional atmosphere, interrupted by deeper, more mechanical seizures, and the words, “I saw a savior / A savior come my way / I thought I’d see him / In the cold light of day.” Voices join in the...
Judd Apatow may not be able to do whatever he wants, but he sure gets to do a lot of it. He’s become a virtual movie factory since he transitioned from television to film in 2004, producing some 15 flicks to date, about half of which have...