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Beauty: Beyond What We Like

Our tastes can remain our own even when we see something together. Begin with works and ordinary life, not a vocabulary test.

01 · OPENING ESSAY · THREE LANGUAGES

I Don’t Like It. But I Can See Its Beauty.

A novel we won’t read again. A cup that is finished. Liking, beauty and judgment need not all fit inside the same verdict.

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BEGIN WITH A WORK · EIGHT EDITIONS

Looking Closely at Art

From Giotto’s gold and the hands behind Degas’s Little Dancer to the Pantheon’s opening and Fallingwater’s terraces. Twenty paintings, twenty sculptures and twenty buildings in eight complete editions: begin with the details, then ask what moves us.

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02 · DIRECTIONS OF ATTENTION

Thirteen rays, not a ladder

The same night sky can be approached in several ways. These rays are not bins for objects or ranks for people’s tastes. Each essay stands on its own; the papers are not prerequisites.

13 of 13 companion essays are published, each in English and both Chinese editions. The collection is complete; begin with any essay. All thirteen bilingual academic papers are linked in the expandable map below.

10 · Self

“I Was Mistaken.”

A name called in error brings a judgment back to its maker. The world is not wholly wrong. Neither is the person who made the mistake.

Open the theory map and paper links
  1. Hundun (the undivided) ↗Academic paper
  2. Philosophy ↗Academic paper
  3. Mathematics ↗Academic paper
  4. Physics ↗Academic paper
  5. Causation ↗Academic paper
  6. Biology ↗Academic paper
  7. Reproduction ↗Academic paper
  8. Perception ↗Academic paper
  9. Cognition ↗Academic paper
  10. Self ↗Academic paper
  11. Purpose ↗Academic paper
  12. Non-doubt ↗Academic paper
  13. Mutual non-doubt ↗Academic paper

Framework: Judgment and Aesthetics · Second edition ↗

03 · DAILY DISCOVERIES

Beauty of the Remainder

This journal gravitates toward work still finding its way: code, tools, craft and things that grow beyond a plan. That is an editorial interest, not a claim that finished work has lost its beauty.

156 daily entries · Original Simplified Chinese and English editions. These articles retain their existing URLs and text.

The latest six

The Gap Landed on the One Who Proved ItThe Flat Places Had Something to SayHydrogen Answered at the Thirteenth DigitA Sphere That Turns Itself Inside OutA Past With No ArchiveThe Guess Goes to the Adversary
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The Gap Landed on the One Who Proved ItThe Flat Places Had Something to SayHydrogen Answered at the Thirteenth DigitA Sphere That Turns Itself Inside Out
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The Artist Is Dead

An earlier long essay on how markets, academies and algorithms narrow creative work. Read it independently; it is not a prerequisite. Available in English and Simplified Chinese.