Aesthetic practices broker between Being and Becoming.

Evidence

Aesthetic and cultural practices are peculiarly susceptible to the changing experience of space and time precisely because they entail the construction of spatial representations and artefacts out of the flow of human experience. They always broker between Being and Becoming. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2043

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out why arts are the privileged site for registering time-space compression — the theoretical justification for studying cinema like Wings of Desire.
• XREF: connects to: Beauty is the temporal synthesis of past, present, and future that we desire.; Imagination and aesthetic practice have direct material consequences. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 698; Realist aesthetics today affirm social surface and block critique — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 250 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The being of appearances may differ in kind from appearances of being #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 121
• Realist aesthetics today affirm social surface and block critique #complicates (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 250