Tag: aesthetics

• To Dream of Beauty: On the Possibility of Afrofuturism as a Solution to Climate Catastrophe

  July 9, 2025

  Biologists and environmentalists dedicated to studying the natural world may say that hope is a scarce resource of late. Human-driven shifts to the climate have increased the frequency and severity… more ›

• The New Aesthetics of Slop

  March 12, 2025

  You could be a Surrealist or a Futurist or a Post-Impressionist or a Cubist. You could align yourself with Art Deco or Dada or Bauhaus or Fauvism. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-new-aesthetics-of-slop more ›

• AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

  March 2, 2025

  Tommy Robinson tweets an image of soldiers walking into the ocean on D-Day. Britain First’s co-leader produces imagery of Muslim men laughing at sad white girls on public transport. https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/ more ›

• A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

  February 22, 2025

  ‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited… more ›

• AI “art” and uncanniness

  May 18, 2024

  “A meaning that does not stem from organizing intention. https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-13-spooky-action-at-a-close-up-invisible-hand-5c873636eb47 more ›

• The Decay of Lying

  November 5, 2023

  [This web version of “The Decay of Lying” is based on the text from Volume 7 of The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde (New York: The Nottingham Society, 1909). Wilde’s… more ›

• Why Is Post-COVID China Embracing A Cyberpunk Aesthetic?

  August 7, 2023

  Over the last few months, the term “cyberpunk” has unexpectedly gone mainstream in China’s post-COVID fashion scene. https://jingdaily.com/china-luxury-trends-cyberpunk-covid-louis-vuitton/ more ›

• Werner Herzog’s Wondrous Novel of Nothingness in the Jungle

  July 10, 2022

  The Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda emerged from hiding, in 1974, after fighting the Second World War for twenty-nine years. “The Twilight World” is a funny novel in the same way… more ›

• The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)

  June 20, 2021

  What is the contribution that the arts and humanities can make to our engagement with the increasingly pervasive technology of artificial intelligence? My aim in this short article is to… more ›

• Haruki Murakami has “never thought about” changing the way he writes female characters.

  May 30, 2021

  Prolific author, radio DJ, and T-shirt designer Haruki Murakami has a reputation for being somewhat reclusive—but that doesn’t mean he’s managed to avoid controversy entirely. https://lithub.com/haruki-murakami-has-never-thought-about-changing-the-way-he-writes-female-characters/ more ›