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."
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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.
