[lbo-talk] It's Teh Bigneth, stoopit

[wrobert at uci.edu]

This comes up in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.  Adorno argues that the
aestheticization (probably spelled wrong, but so it goes) is linked to its
domination.  Before the domination of nature occurs, nature is viewed as
ugly and dangerous.  A cursory glance at U.S. literature tends to confirm
this.  I will expand at request or angry denunciation.  Robert Wood


> Roughly speaking, Homer's response to what the 19th/20th centuries call
> "Nautre" was that nature was UGLY. A mountain was ugly; the sea was
> ugly. Beauty characterized only that which had been shaped by human
> artifice. Of course Homer did not have central heating, a radar-equipped
> Coast Guard, Helicopter rescue teams, steel&plastic hip replacements. (I
> would be dead or permanently bed-ridden except for the latter.)
>
> Carrol
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