What is the definition of a good life in modern society? Under the coercion of the accelerated era, technology brings convenience to life, but also caused people to have pseudo-aesthetic fatigue. The self-discipline of traditional aesthetics has been broken and it has fallen into the dilemma of aesthetic alienation. This requires us to thinking about how social acceleration alienates the public’s aesthetic experience and how to reshape the concept of a better life. Hatmut·Rosa uses time as the breakthrough point to explore the modern society is in a state of constant acceleration, and uses this to construct a critical theory of social acceleration. At the same time, it explains the new alienation caused by the accelerated state of society. Based on Rosa's critical theory of social acceleration and the logical framework of neo-alienation, this paper studies the manifestations of alienation produced by accelerated aesthetic experience in the social environment: the extinction of subjectivity, the symbolization of aesthetic imagination, non-differentiated aesthetic consciousness, technological myths and mediatization. The accelerating society has led to the aesthetic falling into the whirlpool of digital capitalism by constantly reinforcing the logic of time. Meanwhile it also makes the modern good life encounter many obstacles. Therefore, how to realize the redemption of the alienation of aesthetic experience has become an urgent issue of attention.

Authors:
Siyu Chen, Sichuan University, China

About the Presenter(s)
Chen Siyu is currently a PhD student at Sichuan University in China.Current research focuses on aesthetic and cultural studies, especially the relationship between human and urban society in the digital aesthetic perspective.

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