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Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

Why Theory

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What the Fuck Are We Talking About?

Rosebud: A lot of reviews of the HBO series, Watchmen, are about what it didn't do. Rosebud: It's a really popular gesture in aesthetic evaluation is to talk about what something didn't do and there's no real analysis or appreciation of the object itself. She says that by being very, very close to an object, you miss it entirely. The essential thing is how we, the relation structured between some kind of particular,. which is the object being depicted in the work of art, right? Or it's a group of particulars. And then this, the whole within the structure, right? Like this, the, the whole that everything is dealing with

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