Identitet og æstetisering

Identity is related to aesthetics as a discipline for forming individuals. However, difficulties arise as to whether identity concerns the person present or a true and authentic person behind the appearance; whether it is the spiritual or the bodily presence. Aesthetics related to the sensorial and bodily faculties is about how cultural formations exercise an influence on us. Aesthetics applied to cultural formation is discussed as aestheticization. Gernot Böhme suggests with his critique of aesthetic economy that today aestheticization should not be seen as a superficial beautification of the environment, but rather as a reality for individualsused to form and present one’s identity. What could appear as an acceptance of the spurious surface should rather, with inclusion of Mario Perniola, be considered a different approach enabling a sensitive critique rather than a dogmatic rejection.

身份认同与以塑造个体为核心旨归的美学学科息息相关。然而，学界仍存在诸多争议：身份究竟是指当下在场的个体，还是表象背后真实本真的自我？是关乎精神层面的存在，还是肉身层面的在场？与感官及肉身官能相关的美学，探讨的是文化形态如何对我们施加影响。将美学应用于文化形态研究的路径，被界定为审美化（aestheticization）。格诺特·博默（Gernot Böhme）在其对审美经济的批判中提出，当下的审美化不应被视为对环境的浅层美化，而应视作个体用以塑造并彰显自身身份认同的现实路径。那些看似是对虚假表象的接纳，结合马里奥·佩尔尼奥拉（Mario Perniola）的理论来看，实则应被视作一种别样的研究进路：它能够促成敏锐的批判性审视，而非教条式的全盘拒斥。