THE BRIGHT RED GOTHIC

David Johnson
May 10, 2024

The ‘bright red gothic’ is an aesthetic that resonates in the abyss between winning and losing, heaven and hell.

Neither the white gothic of chivalry nor the black gothic of the plague, but red gothic (neither the idealism of optimism nor the idealism of pessimism, but the world as it is).

The bright red gothic is the electric excitement of the eternal battle for the winning fruits of the earth, winning over losing, the genius of heaven and hell.

This secret aesthetic resonates with other secret aesthetics of winning and losing, for instance ‘dark psychedelia’.

Obviously, the red of red gothic is not a logical mid-point between black and white (hence dark psychodelia) but rather an oblique flamboyance, like the aristocratic principle it is.

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