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Aesthetic education is involved in the production of subjectivity. From Plato (2000), to Matthew Arnold (1932), to Theodor Adorno (1977, 1991), it has been understood that youth are moulded by cultural education. Plato encouraged art education that would influence the development of youth taste in ways that would support the state. Arnold worried about the loss of high culture with the rise of cultural industries, and Adorno worried popular culture produced by cultural industries threatened to transform people into empty-headed consumers.
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MacDonald, M.B. (2016). Aesthetic Systems Theory. In: MacDonald, M.B. (eds) Remix and Life Hack in Hip Hop. Youth, Media and Culture Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-500-5_1
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