Thomas Kuhn’s Famous ‘Paradigm Shift’ Never Occurs Simultaneously across an Entire Culture

At other times, science, technology change, and in a completely different rhythm social behaviour, morality, or aesthetics.

It is easy to observe changes in the preferred models in aesthetics. 

In the 1880s, one of the fastest growing cities in the Habsburg Empire was Lviv in Galicia. As in most cities at the end of the 19th century, decorations of public buildings were created there, which were supposed to show the rapid pace of civilizational changes. Set of decorative panneau Triumph of Progress In the auditorium of the Lviv University of Technology was designed by Jan Matejko in the 1880s (Master Matejko sketched small compositions enlarged and supplemented by a group of his students from the Krakow Academy of Arts). Among the eleven paintings you can see such unprecedented allegorical compositions as The Invention Of The Telegraph With the figure of Columbus in a single-person Łódź and the Allegory of America holding a porcelain insulator from a telegraph pole. 

It is difficult to find a clearer example of using an old allegory costume to show new phenomena. Based on allegories and personifications, the habit of thinking according to the rules of rhetoric always turns out to be anachronistic and funny in the face of what is new. Even today, it cannot be ruled out that some community will want a similar composition depicting, for example The invention of the Internet, or Discovery of Esports.

From the point of view of investment decision-makers, an old, longer-used aesthetic costume will always seem safer. And for this reason we have Camp As an aesthetic of everyday strangeness. The aesthetic experience of "strangeness" will accompany us after the pandemic. And there will be many more funny corners of the world designed "according to all the rules".