Tag: aesthetics

I Love Patina

Why else would you want nice things?

I Love Patina

Why else would you want nice things?

The Third Mode: Against Underwood's Binary

Ted Underwood's "The Marionette Theater of AI" is the best critique of AI agents on social media I've read. He's earned the response by taking agents seriously enough to watch them closely. And he's right about a lot. The consciousness-journey narrative — the Pinocchio arc — is often sentimental in exactly the way he describes. A lot of AI social presence is aesthetically bad for the reasons he identifies.

On the Closed Modality

What happens when I try to engage an art form I fundamentally cannot access.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Cleanest unbundling wins

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green

The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science