Popularity
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Like efficiency and value, the dichotomy of popularity and aesthetics is a part of our life. Aesthetics is the opposite of popular, simply because anything popular is average (/monolithic), and aesthetics is the departure from a median norm.
These tensions are cyclical. Some aesthetic gestures become popular (trends) and then lose their expressive…
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