Beauty is the temporal synthesis of past, present, and future that we desire.

Evidence

Architecture, he maintains, is not only about domesticating space, wresting and shaping a liveable place from space. It is also a deep defence against ‘the terror of time’. The ‘language of beauty’ is ‘the language of a timeless reality.’ To create a beautiful object ‘is to link time and eternity’ in such a way as to redeem us from time’s tyranny. … The aim of spatial constructs is ‘not to illuminate temporal reality so that [we] might feel more at home in it, but to be relieved of it: to abolish time within time, if only for a time.’ — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1295 (#complicates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Beauty-making functions as a defense against temporality and death — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1295; Aesthetic practices broker between Being and Becoming. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2043; Beauty’s powerlessness becomes the negative image of redemptive hope — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 250 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauty-making functions as a defense against temporality and death #complicates (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1295
• Aesthetic practices broker between Being and Becoming. #expands (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2043
• Beauty’s powerlessness becomes the negative image of redemptive hope #complicates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 250
• Memory poetically completes the past self with a plenitude of being #expands (0.72)