06/25/24
living out of hope

living out of ignorance 

hope and ignorance rain from the same cloud 

soak the soil below 

birth of new blossoming

floods  penetrates  subdues 

if left to right and right to left 

the plane of life and death we are caught in between 

encased by the sky and the ground and teased by the horizon 

conversations between generations 

make the journey to the next ear eye skin mouth and nose

pleasure unappreciated becomes pain 

a computer inside a plant

we call a brain inside a body

beautiful parasites

forget how to live with the earth 

fresh water and salt water meet in the middle

we don’t let the garden spider crawl on our leg

it feels so good to breath 

glitching between rest and survial

05/06/2034

aesthetics keeps our reality tidy orderly and finite 
human aesthetics the sharp shape of homes amongst landscape of roundness
human perception is an aesthetic 
the way the brain process informaton to create visuals is an aesthetic 
abandoning possibilites of infinity 
aesthetic creates perception of safety and stability
it drives the comfort of consumerism in the western world 

expectation influences perception 
the indoctrination of ideology 
transactionality of survival 
understanding mechanisms and patterns of nature




04.16.2024

defining love - as it exists and as i connect it to my theory
aesthetics - idea - reality - subjectivity 
The Unrequited Love of Aesthetics 
Sense of perception - informed through consciousness - visual stimulation is most common - what is the consistence in perception - marketing, consumerism, 
False concepts of identity and expression 

unknown 


this will be a novel addressing consumerism and materiality that we as humans “love” things but does not love us back - arguably love is not real - it communicates how it does not love us back through immense amounts of waste, toxicity, financial loss, and unfufillment 
Aesthetics as we understand it is grounded in our reality - its greek origin meaning sense of perception

Perception: in pyschosis strong expectations can create perceptions - it is like the brain overwriting its data. it is a negotiation between perception and expectations 

Can i denounce human rationality by disrupting and discrediting how humans perceive reality - is reality not imaginative? 
Reality is grounded in morality which is subjective 

Empiricist framewords in the 18th century were a way to define reality with human rationality 

The word "aesthetics" derives from the Greek "aisthetikos", meaning "of sense perception"

raymond: 
aesthetics - thinking of the future - impact on conditions 
Beauty is coherent - it is beautiful bc it makes sense 
Science - if the equations is too complicated its wrong - its not aesthetical 
aesthetics simplifies things 
explain in the beginning - sense of perception (definition) coherence) layers of aesthetics 
direct which way the reader should go 
French aesthetics art 
American are more scientifically aesthetic nor plesasing to the eye
British are focused on the meaning something 
examine a concept - and see all that affects that concept 

marketing is different from selling --> what is available is marketing --> selling is respsonible for overconsumption 
how to minimize or eliminate waste 
What is overconsumption? 
American work A LOT, remaining connected 
how does aesthetisc apply to making things (industry)

is being productive overconsuming - can we make this a metric
RACE in aesthetics - white preference in america 


Grants for tuition - young, no stanford as a gradaute 
what do i offer to the perosn who give me the grant 
look for grant books 

Stanford and Berkeley *Montara 
San Jose State 
San Francisco State 
Brown
Yale 
Princeton 
Colubia 

read and write the lettes ask them questions Charles Margrave Taylor and Jason Stanley 

it apppears that many of things i am aruging are inherently not aesthetic - they are idealized misconceptions 

Platonic dialogues and experiment with writing in dialogue form 

1. The Concept of Taste


The concept of the aesthetic descends from the concept of taste. Why the concept of taste commanded so much philosophical attention during the 18th century is a complicated matter, but this much is clear: the eighteenth-century theory of taste emerged, in part, as a corrective to the rise of rationalism, particularly as applied to beauty, and to the rise of egoism, particularly as applied to virtue. Against rationalism about beauty, the eighteenth-century theory of taste held the judgment of beauty to be immediate; against egoism about virtue, it held the pleasure of beauty to be disinterested.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-concept/


1.1 Immediacy


Rationalism about beauty is the view that judgments of beauty are judgments of reason, i.e., that we judge things to be beautiful by reasoning it out, where reasoning it out typically involves inferring from principles or applying concepts. At the beginning of the 18th century, rationalism about beauty had achieved dominance on the continent, and was being pushed to new extremes by “les géomètres,” a group of literary theorists who aimed to bring to literary criticism the mathematical rigor that Descartes had brought to physics. As one such theorist put it:

The way to think about a literary problem is that pointed out by Descartes for problems of physical science. A critic who tries any other way is not worthy to be living in the present century. There is nothing better than mathematics as propaedeutic for literary criticism. (Terrasson 1715, Preface, 65; quoted in Wimsatt and Brooks 1957, 258)