Publication details
Estetika nerůstu a teorie estetické hodnoty
| Title in English | Degrowth Aesthetics and Theory of Aesthetic Value |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In response to the challenges of the worsening environmental situation and the advancing climate crisis, a number of attempts at theoretical solutions to this issue have developed in aesthetics in recent years, whether from the perspective of environmental aesthetics, green aesthetics (Y. Saito) or, for example, intergenerational aesthetics (S. Lehtinen, E. Brady). With similar motivations, the concept of degrowth aesthetics (S. Alexander, B. Grosser) has emerged, which is based on contemporary movements to regulate production and consumption in order to reduce their environmental impact, promote social equality and improve quality of life by providing more leisure, care and opportunities to develop relationships in line with the ideal of voluntary simplicity. Previous research on the degrowth aesthetics has focused primarily on: a) comparing the forms of taste and aesthetic value in consumer and degrowth narratives, b) exploring the ways in which these narratives may manifest in specific art and design realizations, and c) finding aesthetic arguments for a degrowth society and everyday life in the spirit of voluntary simplicity. In my paper I would like to develop the question of how different theoretical conceptions of aesthetic value can contribute to this argument. It is not the intention of this paper to evaluate or defend particular models of degrowth. Instead, it aims to contribute to the debate about what changes in taste and traditional attitudes can be motivated by the global event of climate crisis. |
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