To live an aesthetic life is to understand meaning through signs and symbols—through what the appearance of your life might communicate about you to others and yourself. As Guy Debord put it in The Society of the Spectacle : “Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing. We’ll be answering six questions, covering asymmetrical friendships, whether to rat out a lying boss, an ethical non-monagomy-related pickle, how to trust yourself, how to deal with friends who won’t stop talking about the same problems, and how to stop moving your own goalposts.

In the North, it’s some complicated mashup of gorpcore, covert high-end and designer labels and pseudo-grunge with a touch of femininity that I’ve heard many describe as ‘rich people cosplaying as poor’. Anyone who’s had to endure the first day of university ‘get to know each other’ exercises or has made the move themselves to a new city or country knows all too well just how uncomfortable (and at times cringe) it can be to put yourself out there in a bid to meet new people.Perhaps as we build like this, we can do some bat sh*t crazy stuff in our work as well as on our bikes. R. Avramenko (2008) ‘Zarathustra and His Asinine Friends: Nietzsche and Taste as the Groundless Ground of Friendship’, in Von Heyking and Avramenko (eds), Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press). If your kitchen is organized in such a way that it photographs well, that is considered more successful than an organized kitchen that doesn’t. She asked if I was really hosting an event for the book club and not inviting her and after hesitating I said yes but only because I know she would never wear a ball gown or put effort into looking good. J. Derlega (1978) ‘The Matching Hypothesis: Physical Attractiveness among Same-Sexed Friends’, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 4, 240–3.

It read “… Y ou’d be surprised how many people in our readings admit they hate their friends… like a lot! New with tags: A brand-new, unused, unworn and undamaged item in the original packaging (such as the . A. Warhol (1975) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). All our products are crafted with love and care, designed to enhance your special moments with family and/or friends. The comment that stuck out to me the most was from Vibras Australia, an energy reading ‘auraphotography’ business based in St Kilda that captures and interprets the colour of people’s auras.An outfit “works” if it follows a socially established rule book (or if it cannily rejects that rule book). WallpaperAccess brings you thousands of high quality images to be used as wallpaper for your computer, tablet or phone. In the spirit of exploring fresh perspectives, I offer this investigation into the aesthetic aspects of personal relationships with a focus on friendship. When we compliment someone’s photo by saying it looks like an advertisement—itself an imitation of reality—that doesn’t seem backwards to us at all. When I moved from Sydney to Melbourne last March, the daunting task of making friends as a 25-year-old occupied a permanent top spot on the list of things that terrified me (that and hook turns, strangely).