What’s left when you can’t use it
On Aesthetics, the general and the specific
Aesthetics can’t be general, because then it would be a utility1.
Useful things are, by their nature, swappable. A hammer is a hammer for whoever picks it up. A kilowatt does the same work in any wire. A dollar is a dollar in any hand. That’s the whole point of a tool. It doesn’t care who’s holding it, and you ca…


