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    Yuriko Saito argues that everyday aesthetics is grounded ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Aesthetic appreciation of everyday life requires defamiliarization, making strange, or casting an aura onto ordinary objects and activities.

    Yuriko Saito argues that everyday aesthetics is grounded in direct, engaged familiarity with objects—not estrangement from them.

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    • 1.Aesthetic experience of familiar objects (e.g., a worn coffee mug) deepens through repeated interaction, revealing qualities invisible to detached observation.
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    • 2.Estrangement-based aesthetics requires artificial distance, making everyday beauty inaccessible to those without leisure for contemplative detachment.
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    • 3.Our most meaningful aesthetic encounters occur with objects we live with intimately, suggesting familiarity, not alienation, grounds genuine aesthetic appreciation.
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    • 1.Habitual familiarity breeds perceptual numbness; aesthetic discovery often requires defamiliarization techniques that disrupt automaticity and reveal overlooked features.
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    • 2.Some aesthetic experiences require critical distance to function—appreciating a painting's composition or architecture's form benefits from stepping back, not intimate engagement.
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    • 3.Saito's framework risks conflating comfort and utility with aesthetic value, potentially misidentifying functional attachment as genuine aesthetic appreciation.
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