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    Dewey's pragmatist 'consummatory experience' requires gen... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Everyday objects and activities can acquire aesthetic merit when approached with a different attitude, perceptual gear, or when given a cohesive internal structure.

    Dewey's pragmatist 'consummatory experience' requires genuine rupture from habitual flow, making truly routine activities structurally ineligible for aesthetic status.

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    • 1.Aesthetic experience requires heightened attention and awareness that habitual action actively suppresses through automatization.
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    • 2.Dewey himself emphasized discontinuity: consummatory moments 'stand out' precisely because they interrupt the ordinary flow of experience.
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    • 3.Routine activities, by definition, minimize conscious deliberation and surprise—the very elements that generate aesthetic intensity.
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    • 1.Habitual activities can still occasion sudden aesthetic perception when attention shifts, without requiring the activity itself to rupture.
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    • 2.Japanese aesthetics (wabi-sabi) find beauty precisely in routine simplicity and weathered ordinariness, contradicting the rupture requirement.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'routine' and 'rupture' is cognitive, not structural—the same activity can be either depending on consciousness.
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