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Dark Academia

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An aesthetic movement discussed as an example of consciously manufactured moods that are detached from context, history or actual activity.

Mentions (3)
"Dark academia, academic weapon, "here's how I kept a 4.0 gpa while doing [x]", it's all content overwhelmingly produced by women."
Why do girls love studying so much · u/like_a_tensor · ↑431 · 2024-10-09
"There are nostalgia tourists. They copy the fashion of other times. They are part of a larger subtype, of aesthetics tourists. Think of all the "aesthetics" that have emerged as consciously made, Pinterest style "moods" in the past 15 years (cottagecore, dark academia etc). Its aesthetics dettatched"
The tourist is the quintessential archetype of our times · u/More_Finding_2373 · ↑395 · 2025-03-23
"Along with the TRAD WESTERN RETVRN 'classical education' guys who force themselves to read 5 pages of dostoievsky every week and think about 'reading the classics' as some form of aesthetic (kinda similar to the fckin dark academia teenagers)"
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