Aesthetic Materialism
I have like a bazillion things I've written, sitting on my computer, that the world has never seen. I'm going to start uploading them here. Aesthetic Materialism I happen To prefer Everything is a matter of taste. My preference is for fMRI scans, drivers’ instruction manuals, raw red entrails, landfills, nebulae, sandpaper, a face in the wind.... I like things to be real. Thick, juicy. Then again, thinness is a perfectly materialistic trait. That’s good, too. So is dryness, and tastelessness. Chocolate and velocity. Vapor is a kind of material. Light is a kind of material. Thought is a kind of material. Everything is material, of course. So then, how can there be a materialism, an advocacy for the material, an identity with the material? Can one have a preference for everything? Or could we ask: what is it that makes material material? I have an answer and a non-answer to this question....