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    Negative aesthetic qualities have been underrepresented in prevailing aesthetics discourse

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    • 1.Negative qualities such as ugliness, grotesqueness, repulsiveness, and disgust do not occupy a prominent place in aesthetics discourse
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    • 2.Notable exceptions addressing negative aesthetics (Korsmeyer 2011, Forsey 2016) are few
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    • 1.The sublime tradition from Burke and Kant centrally theorizes terror, vastness, and overwhelming negative affect as aesthetic categories.
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    • 2.Tragedy as an aesthetic form has been analyzed from Aristotle through Nietzsche precisely as the productive engagement with suffering, horror, and destruction.
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    • 3.If foundational aesthetic traditions systematically address negative affect, the claim of underrepresentation conflates 'not labeled negative' with 'absent from discourse'.
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    • 1.The concept of 'negative aesthetic qualities' presupposes a stable positive/negative distinction that is itself theoretically contested in aesthetics.
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    • 2.Hegel's aesthetics treats ugliness and contradiction as dialectically necessary moments within beauty, giving negative qualities a constitutive rather than marginal role.
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    This account of everyday life as pervaded by negative aesthetic qualities rather than lacking any aesthetic qualities gives rise to ‘negative aesthetics.’ This notion may at first appear to be an oxymoron, if ‘aesthetics’ is understood in the usual honorific sense. Katya Mandoki and Arnold Berleant stress the importance of attending to this aesthetically negative aspect of people’s lives that is unfortunately all too common (Mandoki 2007; Berleant 2010, 2012). Negative aesthetic qualities such a
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