Separating beauty from necessity shrinks human possibility by design

Evidence

Ellis recognised, that is to say, that the production of the aesthetic as a category separate from the “necessary” (i.e. the utile, in the Bataille restricted economy sense) was complicit in a kind of (from any rational POV) inexplicable diminution of the possibilities of human experience. Why must architecture be part of a banalising culture of vampiric undeath? Why should only the privileged be able to enjoy their surroundings? Why should the poor be penned into miserable concrete blocks? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 343

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deprivation of beauty depresses bodies as surely as material lack — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 344