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  1. Sep 2021
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    What’s Dark about Dark Academia
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    1. halbrech 13 Sep 2021
      But I think these explanations can’t account for the longer arc of the trend’s popularity, nor its near neighbors in cottagecore et al, which also tend toward the Anglophilic and historical. Instead, it’s dark academia’s mix of aspirational and achievable that seems the most appealing to me

      Basically he's saying: "They say dark academia just stems from an association with school-going needs and dark aesthetics; I say it is a community that keeps alive an intellectual world that unattainable in the modern world."

    2. halbrech 13 Sep 2021
      Creating and emulating dark academia content offers students a way to fantasize about a world in which higher education isn’t instrumentalized, but rather self-sustaining and inherently valuable.

      This is an interesting conceptual/analytical judgement. I actually have seen this in my own life. There is less time to be spent on english/history/rhetorical thinking, so I unknowingly find ways to include it into my life as a pastime.

    3. halbrech 13 Sep 2021
      this particular aesthetic category offers a kind of grassroots postmortem on the pursuit of humanistic study, reduced by the ever-economizing university to a professionalization tool, that students then repurpose as a fashion trend.

      This is a very interesting fact. Up to this point I have mostly just assumed that Dark Academia is just a fashion style, but it actually is about making statements about humanity.

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