{"product_id":"the-aesthetic-shift-vincent-bozzino-9781068214004","title":"The Aesthetic Shift: Value Corruption and Normative Conflict","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In a society saturated with \u003cem\u003esimulacra\u003c\/em\u003e, Reality is no longer reported but edited, traded, and sold.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEverything you know is wrong.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eYears of post-truth ideologies and international propaganda convinced everyone the aesthetics of reality and reason, language and perception are distorted, more so now by the Digital Revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSociety \"woke\" up to cultural critique, at the highest level of \u003cstrong\u003eexistential toxicity\u003c\/strong\u003e and queasy scientists swerve to find a meta-physically coherent answer to a ragbag of warranted beliefs, lampooned by humanities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Plato to Zizek, philosophical invasion has constrained human knowledge to skepticism, will to art, normativity to value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ewhat triggers our mind to attribute epistemic and\/or moral value to phenomena, at individual and social level, to the cost of false absolutes and alienating the fabric of society? Is value a property inherent in objects, events or is it a quality people ascribe to them?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 21st century, aesthetic experience is ever such predominant and an official theory of \u003cstrong\u003e[mis]\u003c\/strong\u003eunderstanding ever so required.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely based on his 2022 BA thesis from the University of London, \u003cem\u003eThe Aesthetic Shift\u003c\/em\u003e is Bozzino's authoritative, cutting-edge probe into the aesthetic falsification of epistemic value and its snowball effect on normativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, Nelson Goodman made an observation about aesthetic forgery that has never been fully appreciated. Goodman described a case where the viewer is confronted with an original work and a forgery perceptually indistinguishable from true. 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