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    Aesthetic appreciation of everyday life requires defamili... — Carmelics
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    Aesthetic appreciation of everyday life requires defamiliarization, making strange, or casting an aura onto ordinary objects and activities.

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    • 1.In daily life, people are most often preoccupied by practical tasks, which mask the aesthetic potential of commonplace objects and ordinary activities.
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    • 2.Everyday experiences lack coherent structure consisting of unity, pervasive character, and a clear beginning and end.
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    • 3.According to Dewey, everyday humdrum proceeds mechanically without internal organic evolution, rendering it 'anesthetic'.
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    • 1.Yuriko Saito argues that everyday aesthetics is grounded in direct, engaged familiarity with objects—not estrangement from them.
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    • 2.The aesthetic qualities of wabi-sabi, mingei craft traditions, and Japanese mono no aware require intimate habitual attunement, not defamiliarization.
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    • 3.If defamiliarization were necessary, aesthetic appreciation would paradoxically destroy itself upon repeated exposure, collapsing into mere habituation.
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    • 1.Dewey's own account of aesthetic experience in 'Art as Experience' locates it in the consummatory quality of absorbed, skilled everyday engagement—not in making the familiar strange.
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    • 2.Pragmatist somaesthetics (Shusterman) holds that heightened bodily awareness during routine activities like martial arts or cooking constitutes genuine aesthetic experience without estrangement.
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    • 3.The defamiliarization thesis conflates the modernist avant-garde's therapeutic strategy for jaded perceivers with a universal necessary condition for all aesthetic appreciation.
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    If ‘everyday’ is characterized as the familiar, ordinary, commonplace, and routine, regardless of the specific content that varies from people to people depending upon their lifestyle, occupation, living environment, and other factors, what makes its aesthetic appreciation possible? The following response dominates everyday aesthetics discourse: the aesthetic appreciation of everyday life requires defamiliarization, making strange, or casting an aura. Because we are most of the time preoccupied
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