Picasso
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Picasso is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 15, 2024 and December 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Picasso to Jackson Pollock”; “arts in the style of Van Gogh or Picasso”. It most often appears alongside Internet, 3D printing, @the_megabase.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 15, 2024
- Last seen: December 04, 2024
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- Internet (2 shared issues)
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- 3D printing (1 shared issues)
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- @the_megabase (1 shared issues)
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- A Pan-Species Welfare State (1 shared issues)
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- Abercrombie & Fitch (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grantees (1 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- Aldo Rossi (1 shared issues)
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- Alessandro Menini (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Apimostinel (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Recalibrating our hedonic set-point doesn't - or at least needn't - undermine critical discernment. All that's needed for the abolitionist project and its hedonistic extensions to succeed is that our ethic isn't committed to perpetuating the biology of involuntary suffering. Likewise, only a watered-down version of psychological hedonism is needed to lend the scenario sociological credibility. We can retain as much - or as little - of our existing preference architecture as we please. You can continue to prefer Shakespeare to Mills-and-Boon, Mozart to Morrissey, Picasso to Jackson Pollock while living perpetually in Seventh Heaven or beyond.
First, the Bauhaus promised architects a promotion from tradesman to intellectual. Some, like Frank Lloyd Wright, had already started such a transition. But the average architect was just someone who knew some stuff about stone and columns and stuff. Rich people would hire one to build them a cool villa, the architect would follow instructions and make whatever cool villa the rich person had requested, the rich person would pay them, and they would make a decent living. But modernism told architects that they were not only brilliant romantic Artists in the style of Van Gogh or Picasso - they were also intellectuals. They should be able to discourse on which styles were bourgeois, which expressed the true meaning of Light and Structure, and so on. Someone who wrote manifestos on the true meaning of Structure is automatically in the upper middle class; they get invited to cooler parties than somebody who just knows things about different types of stone. This was the Bauhaus’ offer to architects, and they leapt at the opportunity.