Although some media outlets do exploit the lives of celebrities, accidents and natural catastrophes, terrorist attacks, and economic crises from an overtly sensationalistic angle, we must recognize that not all reports and news that represent and communicate emotional content are a priori sensationalistic--even though most of them
estheticize and politicize the emotional meanings of those events (Rosas, 2015).
Both images possess a power of directing the further course of the narrative, as the prevalent discourses in both stories are inevitably conditioned by the moments when the need to
estheticize the object of love reaches its peak.
These lines inevitably bring to mind Theodor Adorno's famous dictum "To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric." For Adorno it was obscene to attempt to
estheticize the horror of the concentration camp and any attempt to impose artistic coherence on such monstrosity was as barbaric as the crime itself.
traveler's gaze, while the traveler tends to
estheticize the
They could supply the cultural forms necessary to
estheticize the separation and give it character and authenticity.
Krupat, for instance, points out that when "literary people
estheticize science, accuracy and authenticity are inevitably lost in some degree; when anthropologists scientize art, its charm, force, beauty are inevitably lost in some degree." He praised the translations of several scholars and concluded with a prediction, "that the current conditions of possibility for the translation of Native American song and story are decidedly hopeful."
The one is Fantasia, a profound portrayal of Algerian history as seen by a woman and entwined with her biography, a work with an outstanding style that does not
estheticize the cruel facts and still is a poetic account of the ambiguity of human perception.
(Conspiracy theory could be applied to the membership of every art movement in history.) With Cop Sculpture, in the absence of any actual sculpture to deem good or bad, we witnessed the construction of conspiracy, or of conspiracies--the initial conspiracy to
estheticize evidence of crime, and the encompassing conspiracy between Tobier and Byfield, and between them and us.
In the '20s, Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy viewed the photogram as a means of subverting the mechanicity of photography because it provided a means of creating a photograph without the technological eye of the camera; Fuss exploits it more for its capacity to
estheticize, to transform objects and substances into ghostly and ephemeral silhouettes of the "real."