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caption image: Image by Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
caption image2: Endarkenment pantheon and its vectors: Possibility ⟷ Futility, Introspection ⟷ Reactivity. The intersection of these vectors (aka quadrants) give rise to aesthetic guilds. Image by Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
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description: This essay explores the concept of "Endarkenment," an aesthetic response to current global crises. Instead of apocalyptic destruction, Endarkenment finds beauty in chaos and decay. It contrasts traditional enlightenment, emphasizing engagement with darkness and complexity. Four aesthetic "guilds"—NovusHex, Netmesh, Candyblade360, and Hyper-ogre—illustrate different aspects of this concept, embracing both technological and primitive elements to find new forms of meaning and enchantment amid widespread despair and systemic failures.
discipline: Speculative
entity: Individual
entry number: 047
external reference: [https://elizabethgabriellelee.com Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee]
image: Screenshot 2024-07-09 at 13.05.42.png
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link: https://observatorystudio.substack.com/p/644bc204-e16a-457a-b8e1-f708f288aa89
people: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
quote: I propose Endarkenment, an aesthetic posturing that’s emerging from the abyss of ultimate system failures and chronic mass despair. I’m not interested in a doomsday, pure-nihilistic dystopian narrative.
reflection: The essay's concept of "Endarkenment" connects to how we experience fashion online by highlighting emerging digital aesthetics and trends that embrace chaos, complexity, and non-traditional beauty. Online fashion communities reflect this through styles like "indiesleaze" and "ratgirlsummer," which celebrate raw, unpolished looks, and "technomysticism" that merges spirituality with cybernetics. Platforms like Instagram curate these trends, showcasing designs that fuse nature with technology or embrace hyper-femininity and grotesque, anti-minimalist aesthetics. These digital movements redefine fashion by rejecting conventional norms and finding beauty in unconventional, dark, and chaotic expressions.
subject: Aesthetics
subject: Techno-social
subject: Digital culture
title: Sublime Heartbreak: Vectors for an Ending of Times
type: Essay
wiki page modification date: 2024-07-16T11:33:48Z
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