An aesthetic revolution would demote science and economics to the periphery

Evidence

When the visual arts—and for that matter music, literature, and the like—conduct and win their revolution that will demolish the theology of progress and a sovereign structure of thought, it is only then that science, philosophy, and economics will have to move to the peripheral domain or vanish in whole or in part; and being always subordinate and subservient to the imperatives of the central domain, these latter discourses will consequently shed their former structures of thought. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 382

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A speculative scenario: what would a society actually look like where aesthetic/epistemic-ethical value, not capital or science, defines the central domain? Rich worldbuilding seed for an alternative-civilization fiction.