@cindyweinstein @AmandaMarcotte You made my day! 
"The visual equivalent of a burned steak covered in ketchup" 
I think that's exactly why we shudder *and* laugh loudly about that "car crash" principle of #aesthetics" in Europe!
Germans have a great word for faces like T, M, Z & Co: Hackfresse. Translated as sh*tface, it's a mixture of a derogatory word for an ugly face (fresse) and minced meat (hack or hackfleisch).
It makes me sick to look at these people. 
"If art is the establishing or breaking of aesthetic rules, then AI art, as practiced by the right, says that there are no rules but the naked exercise of power by an in-group over an out-group. It says that the only way to enjoy art is in knowing that it is hurting somebody. That hurt can be direct, targeted at a particular group (like Britain First’s AI propaganda), or it can be directed at art itself, and by extension, anybody who thinks that art can have any kind of value. It can often be playful – in the way that the cruel children of literary cliché play at pulling the wings off flies – and ironised; Musk’s Nazi salute partook of a tradition of ironic-not-ironic appropriation of fascist iconography that winds its way through 4Chan (Musk’s touchpoint) and back into the countercultural far right of the 20th century."
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
BTW i would like y’all to start speaking about #globalization as a #fascist American project.
globalization is the worldwide normalization of American #corporatist #fascism.
business suits are the new #nazi suits. the Silicon Valley aesthetics of khakis is the new #brownshirts. cop uniforms are the new #blackshirts.
#aesthetics play a huge part in normalizing violence; especially state #violence.
"AI does not possess a self. It lacks personhood. It has no experience of subjectivity. So any art it creates will inevitably feel empty and hollow.
Any human quality it possesses will be based on imitation, pretense, and deception. None of it is real.
AI doesn’t even have a direct sense of objectivity—its knowledge of objects is all secondhand, assimilated through data. This results in a lack of depth or felt significance in any artistic work it creates.
That why Slop is inevitable in an Age of AI.
But this will not stop it from dominating the aesthetics of our time. The billionaires who are funding AI will make sure that it shows up everywhere.
But the worst phase arrives when human artists start imitating Slop. That’s already happening.
The Slop aesthetic is so pervasive now that even realistic photographs of actual events are staged to resemble AI works."
Free download:
"Artificial #Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media"
by Lev Manovic and Emanuele Arielli
#ai #philosophy #art #arttheory @academicchatter @philosophy
https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics
Confession time.
I saw this post on Tumblr and felt… Things.
I love men that are so hairy they can’t even hide it like they have hairy ass forearms and it’s creeping up their wrists and knuckles and poking out of the collar of their button up shirt… your slutty whore DNA is bursting at the seams. Whore.
I honestly love seeing other people like that, and our body is like that. It makes me dysphoric personally for reasons I’ve never been able to quite articulate, but I love seeing this on other people, men or not.
I do love a sweet man, though. Especially a hairy one…
Sdtyhffdsdgbjkhhgssaaaaa. I love it when pretty people. That is all.
-Allēna
I'm really pleased with my chapter in this Oxford Handbook that came out in hardback this month.
"An Exploration of the Aesthetic Moment in the Clinical Encounter Using Free Musical Improvisation as a Model"
Bit of a mouthful, I know, but it does what it says on the label.
And content and process are consistent with one another and with the value set espoused.
I thought I would post this as #ThickBookThursday
#MentalHealth #Aesthetics #Improvisation #Music #bookstodon
#Writing
RT @manovich
The final version of our book 'Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media' is now available as a free PDF download #GenerativeAI #DigitalCulture #Aesthetics #AIArt https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/artificial-aesthetics
How important is beauty to scientists? Most conversations about this revolve around the things we can see or hear, like photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, or the way physicists perceive some equations as elegant. Sociologists Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan spoke to thousands of scientists about the subject, and discovered they're also motivated by a third kind of beauty: The aesthetic experience of understanding itself. "In our surveys and interviews, when asked where they find beauty in their work, scientists regularly pointed to times when they grasped the hidden order, inner logic or causal mechanisms of natural phenomena," write Ritz and Vaidyanathan for Aeon. "These moments, one UK physicist told us, are ‘like looking into the face of God for non-religious people – how you can look at something and think, oh my God, that’s how things actually work, that’s how things are!’"
