Thursday, November 9, 2023

 “Luxury is a splendor that glows without illuminating and without revealing anything. It is a free, intentionless splendor that shines simply in order to shine. The splendor of luxury dwells on a particular surface that is free from the illusion of depth, and thus appears in beautiful groundlessness.”


- Nietzsche, anticipating Trumpian aesthetics / "Dictators's Homes", via Byung-Chul Han, Good Entertainment (2019).
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