The Emergence Machine

Poshlost

abstract · Aesthetics · Level 11 · E9

E9Cultures

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Poshlost emerges from aesthetics and requires beauty and truth.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “vulgar pretentiousness” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “vulgar pretentiousness”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
пошлость
Origin language
ru

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL11L10L9L8L2L1L0PoshlostAestheticTasteArtMouthFaceSkill… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureActionChangeMatterQualityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesPoshlostL11AestheticL10TasteL10E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Aesthetic L10 (requires)
    Understanding aesthetics is foundational to poshlost.
  • Taste L10 (requires)
    A Russian concept describing something that is spiritually or aesthetically vulgar, pretentious, or in bad taste.