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This compelling survey shows that the environmental impact of every home

Saving Beauty E.M. Forster venal and incurably violent sideBeauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our