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Featherstone again: \u201cPostmodernism effectively thrusts aesthetic questions toward the center of sociological theory: it offers aesthetic models and justifications for the reading and critique of texts (the pleasure of the text, intertextuality, writerly texts) and aesthetic models for life (the expressive aestheticization of life, art as the good of life).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\npostmodern aestheticization<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Featherstone again: “Postmodernism effectively thrusts aesthetic questions toward the center of sociological theory: it offers aesthetic models and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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