The Aestheticization of Life

ebook The Pursuit of the Perfect Image as an Escape from Reality · The Self Under Pressure

By Antonio Carlos

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Living is no longer enough — one must appear to live well.
Aestheticization of Life explores the erosion of existence under the quiet pressure of image, appearance, and symbolic coherence. Through forty unbroken meditative passages, the book asks what remains of truth when the filter becomes the norm — and what survives of interior life when everything must be rendered visually acceptable.

It moves through the uncurated body, the sorrow without caption, the gesture that escapes narrative. It reflects on transparency as soft tyranny, beauty as social currency, and emotional display as a new kind of control. Rather than offer answers, the book opens a space — a pause — where life may still be lived without needing to perform itself.

For readers of contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, image culture, and critical thought, this is a book about the unseen, the unshared, the moments that refuse to be turned into content.

The Aestheticization of Life