On the Rise and Fall of Tuscanization and other Crises in the Aesthetic Economy
by
David Michalski
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change.