What does it feel like?

Where do I find it?

What does it looks like?

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.1

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A convenient way to avoid the word “art” ;)and sound conveniently philosophic.

Gayatri Spivak reimagines his definition

without the nationalist bent...

Aesthetic Education: training the imagination for epistemological performance epistemological performance (expanding one’s abilities to know or

imagine new possibilties)

In the the 1980s, research psychologists who studied the devleopment of aesthet-ic awareness (the ability to make sense of a work of art) regarded the ability to identify with the artist’s process as the

highest stage of development. fuc k tha t i don’t trust psychologists or artists.

But access to arts is not equally avail-able to all. While art can be an empa-thy-building tool, access to its privi-leged processes is often contingent on one’s social and economic capital

Could an aesthetic education feel similar to monkhood?

If one invests in the subjectivity of others to such an extent that there is no differentiation between self and other,

could a grand enlightenment occur?