Methodological distinctions in the “eye culture,” “the ear culture,” and “the tongue culture” in terms of policies, practices, and productions within the fields of fine arts, architecture and performing arts. It also investigates global aesthetic norms, and the ways societies develop aesthetic values through a wide range of Palestinian, Arab, and international cultural productions. The politics behind the formation of public taste and aesthetics in modern and contemporary societies. Moreover, the history of design and the conceptual transformations in aesthetics’ culture in light of the advancement of technology, production and circulation, including: the importance of the industrial revolution, the reification of commodities, market monopoly and global cultures, and the process of reducing cultural production to consumption and its role in popular culture. Deconstructs the aesthetic centralism of the West and studying aesthetic models through methodologies that serve as epistemological defiance to that centralism, such as: subaltern studies, post-colonialism, settler colonialism, indigenous studies, decolonizing research, and the undercommons.
