When Wassily Kandinsky turned his back on representation, two ontologi-cal realms became accessible: the inner, i.e. spiritual, emotional, psychological, and sensual realm, and the abstract, i.e. formal and mathematical realm. Most modem aesthetic theories stem from here as they reject aesthetic value through representation or master narratives and favour a more scientific agenda (think, i.e. of political, sociological, psychological, anthropological, structuralistic, constructivist, mathematical, biological amongst other approaches). But at the ontological bottom of any scientific theory we have to make a choice: do we focus on unsplittable entities, which - governed by laws - constitute reality or do we focus on processes which explain changes, transitions, movements, etc.
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