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Apr 25 17 tweets 7 min read
Eno's Ugliness Theory and Sloptimism 🧵

In his book A Year with Swollen Appendices, famous legendary ambient musician Brian Eno presents one of the great analyses of cultural aesthetics, which he calls "Ugliness Theory."

1/17Image It's not just that the new mediums of past eras generate emotional responses in us, AKA nostalgia, but that its actually the FLAWS of these mediums that define them.

Grainy film, the "crap sound" of 8 bit, CD distortion—Eno frames these as the key nostalgia generators.

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May 25, 2023 13 tweets 4 min read
WILL presents "Twitter Blue: It's Never Over." @elonmusk: our DMs are open. @WideDogArt, renowned based digital artist and winner of the first place Passage Prize in Art, did the animation. The team behind it also included @L0m3z, @KeenanPeachy, @spendokush, and @DisgracedProp.