The two meanings of aesthetics — sensing and sense-making — are not reducible to each other. In fact, they are sometimes not…
The two meanings of aesthetics — sensing and sense-making — are not reducible to each other. In fact, they are sometimes not even conducive to each other. One can, for instance, be deceived by one’s senses, by an ideology or turn of thought, by a perception of accuracy in an instrument. Both sensing and sense-making, then, each necessarily involve a tension with the other. They may even sometimes seek to undo each other.
Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth. London: Verso, 2021.