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

    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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    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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