After Baumgarten: pop aesthetics as a postmodern manifesto

Abstract

It is suggested that postmodern aesthetics, far from the possibility of being conceived as philosophical aesthetics or philosophy of art (at least as presented by Alexander G. Baumgarten at the beginning of Modernity), would acquire in the current era the physiognomy of an aesthetic pop, whose founding expression would seem to be the aesthetic experience itself and not other conditions attributable to a certain aesthetic canon. In relation to this conjecture, which apparently implies a certain overcoming of the idea of work, we discuss, on the one hand, the connection between art and artificial intelligence and, on the other hand, the implications of Everyday Aesthetics on the concept of experience. Both practices would testify to a renewed aesthetic common sense.