Author of quotes: Vitaly A. Kurennoy
Tourism is aesthetic consumption. A huge number of people spends all their efforts on the job in order to travel. They want to experience a new experience, which is aesthetic experience. Dan Maccannell, for example, believes that people go on a journey, because only as a tourist they are able to see the functioning of society as a whole. This is somewhat Marxist theory: while we are working, we are alienated, busy with their business, and only the traveller, the only tourist able to see how society functions as a whole, is an aesthetic experience.
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MegaMozg 12-12-2019 / 13:28
According to Kantian aesthetics, the experience of the beautiful is pleasure without possession. The main strategy that reduces the physical over-consumption, is a strategy of aestheticization, when people begin to get maximum pleasure without possession. Therefore, the aesthetic quality is the most important trend of the modern society.
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MegaMozg 12-12-2019 / 13:26
If we look at the world around us, we see that there is a very deep process aimed at the development of aesthetic experiences associated with complex forms of experience. For example, one of the fastest growing modern cultural industry is the industry related to museums - huge machines that allow you to develop the aesthetic experience of consumption. Museum withdraws the subject from the sphere of possession, puts it under glass, and people who come to the Museum, in fact, cultivate aesthetic experience of the subject.
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MegaMozg 12-12-2019 / 13:24
