외모지상주의와 타자의 아름다움
Lookism and beautification with no pleasure
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Lookism is a term that criticizes the culture placing too much importance to the people's appearances. It is a social apparatus making the mind disappear into the invisible background while foregrounding one's outward appearance. If the appearance coincided with its reality, lookism would not be depreciated: one can hide his or her intention with a deceived appearance like a wolf with a sheep's mask. The problem is that lookism, through on everybody's lips, has never been properly defined. This article is an attempt to fill the gap. The author emphasizes that it would not have been materialized if not supported by (post)modernity, that is, the emergence of metropolitan cities, which render people anonymous and strange to one another. Their gaze stops at the body's surface, unable to penetrate into its inner reality. The body is visible, but not readable. Such metropolitan anonymity, combined with visual culture and cutting-edge medical technologies, gives rise to lookism. If such conditions were not met, the appearance supremacy, however robust it may be, would not have constituted, nor evolved into lookism. It is in this context of metropolitan anonymity that the concept of beauty should be redefined. Beauty in the lookism society is anonymous too, a sharp contrast to the traditional beauty based on sensus communis. In such a community joy or pleasure is the cause of beauty, Whatever makes people happy is called beautiful. The beauty in the modern anonymous society is quite the opposite. Beauty, being detached from our sensus communis, does not function as pleasure any more.
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Lookism is a term that criticizes the culture placing too much importance to the people's appearances. It is a social apparatus making the mind disappear into the invisible background while foregrounding one's outward appearance. If the appearance coincided with its reality, lookism would not be depreciated: one can hide his or her intention with a deceived appearance like a wolf with a sheep's mask. The problem is that lookism, through on everybody's lips, has never been properly defined. This article is an attempt to fill the gap. The author emphasizes that it would not have been materialized if not supported by (post)modernity, that is, the emergence of metropolitan cities, which render people anonymous and strange to one another. Their gaze stops at the body's surface, unable to penetrate into its inner reality. The body is visible, but not readable. Such metropolitan anonymity, combined with visual culture and cutting-edge medical technologies, gives rise to lookism. If such conditions were not met, the appearance supremacy, however robust it may be, would not have constituted, nor evolved into lookism. It is in this context of metropolitan anonymity that the concept of beauty should be redefined. Beauty in the lookism society is anonymous too, a sharp contrast to the traditional beauty based on sensus communis. In such a community joy or pleasure is the cause of beauty, Whatever makes people happy is called beautiful. The beauty in the modern anonymous society is quite the opposite. Beauty, being detached from our sensus communis, does not function as pleasure any more.
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