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    Everyday objects and activities can acquire aesthetic mer... — Carmelics
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    Everyday objects and activities can acquire aesthetic merit when approached with a different attitude, perceptual gear, or when given a cohesive internal structure.

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    • 1.Latent aesthetic values exist in the most ordinary and routine objects and activities.
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    • 2.A change in attitude or perceptual orientation can unearth those latent aesthetic values.
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    • 3.A cohesive internal structure fulfilling structural requirements transforms humdrum experience into genuine aesthetic experience.
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    • 1.Aesthetic experience requires a distinctive kind of object-directed attention that everyday absorption in function systematically forecloses.
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    • 2.Mere attitudinal shift does not alter the intrinsic properties of an object, and aesthetic merit supervenes on intrinsic properties, not on viewer orientation.
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    • 3.Dickie's critique of the aesthetic attitude shows that positing a special 'aesthetic gear' is explanatorily vacuous, not a genuine mechanism of value-creation.
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    • 1.Dewey's pragmatist 'consummatory experience' requires genuine rupture from habitual flow, making truly routine activities structurally ineligible for aesthetic status.
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    • 2.Imposing cohesive structure on ordinary experience from without is an aesthetic falsification, not discovery of latent merit already present in the activity.
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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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