Monoaesthetic Mixtures in Language, Culture and Biology

Various idiomatic expressions, cultural creations and biological traits have been selected for due to the amusing, contradictory way in which they reference more and less exciting opposites. This can be demonstrated by the improbable structural similarity of otherwise independently-derived aesthetic phenomena, many of which are collected here for reference in a series of lists.

Thermoaesthetics
47 min readMay 13, 2024

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Georges Lacombe’s “Blue seascape, Wave Effect.” WikiArt. Public Domain.

© 2024 Andrew Hodgson.

Contents

· Description of Monoaesthetic Lists
Assumptions
· Lists of Monoaesthetic Mixtures
Temperature
Fluidity
Dynamism and Speed
Disorder
Form
Brightness and Warm Colors
Sound, Loudness and High Pitch
Upwardness
Outwardness
Specific Inwardness
Exciting Things in Containers
Length
Spikiness
Large Size
Multiplicity

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Thermoaesthetics
Thermoaesthetics

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A concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of simple, more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.