“Culture Is Not About Esthetics”, Gwern2009-07-16 (music, philosophy, psychology, sociology; backlinks):
Aesthetically & economically, maybe there is too much new art. Don’t take this too seriously. The Price Is Not Right Subsidies 100 Apples in the Barrel 100 Books on the Shelf Reading Them New = Bad Generalizing This Music Movies Genres in General Media Shock Let’s Ban New Books Objections Society Doesn’t Care? What’s Efficiency Anyway? They Snatched Society’s Brain! Two Sides of the Same Organ Won’t Someone Think of the Chemists? Accept No Substitutes, Or, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Octavia Butler Lost Works In-Progress Works New Book Smell The Experimental Results At the End of the Day External Links Appendices Musical Instruments Are Not about Music Good and Plenty Subsidies Indirect Direct Propaganda New Book Smell “Pericalypsis”, Stanislaw Lem Backlinks:
Aesthetically & economically, maybe there is too much new art. Don’t take this too seriously.
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