The Aesthechnics of Everyday life: Suggestions for a Reconsideration of Aesthetics in the Age of Wearable Technologies

This paper does not aim to provide definitive answers to the current debate around the recent line of aesthetic investigation known as Everyday Aesthetics. Neither does it seek to afford absolute methodological and categorial parameters to it. Its main purpose is to suggest a possible thematic approach that starts from a circumscription of the aesthetic inquiry in question to the world of design in its digitally connoted configurations, which today, more than ever, mediate and shape our everyday lives. It is hoped that this approach could contribute to clarify the dynamics through which the current state of the aesthetic is produced and perceived, and that it would encourage established aesthetic theories to reconsider the absoluteness of their traditional paradigms of investigation. But more importantly, this paper will be rooted in the growing significance that wearable technologies are potentially and progressively gaining nowadays.