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WHAT IS LUXURY?(1) - Coggle Diagram
WHAT IS LUXURY?(1)
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LAMBERT WIESING
Luxury is not defined by what a thing is, but by its "mental effect" on the subject ---- study of the experience itself
Sombart vs. Wiesing
Sombart: "expenditure beyond necessity" -- economic approach where luxury is focused on wealth and social excess
Wiesing: Disagree to not put the "subjectiveness" -- explain how an object becomes a luxury through the experience by a person
LUXURY AS "OSTENTATION"?
THEODOR W. ADORNO:
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LUXURY AS EMANCIPATORY POSSIBILITY:
What is useless in terms of function can open a space of freedom of utility from the capitalistic society (escape from the slavery of utility)
L. WIESING:
Meanwhile the ostentation is public, LUXURY CAN BE PRIVATE
DADAISM OF POSSESSION
Luxury as a challenge against razionality -- it break sobriety norms allowing sperimentation of the autonomy and freedom of the subject by owning something without any necessity.
Luxury as "Lebensgefühl"
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The "Lebensgefühl"
- Intensification of cognitive vitality
- the capacity to think and feel freely