Harald KlinkeSep 25, 2025

📖 AI Aesthetics is an outstanding interdisciplinary exploration of how generative AI is reshaping culture, perception, and aesthetics — not just tools, but infrastructures of power.

In the Introduction, Thon & Wilde argue that platforms such as DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. are now core image infrastructures — controlling multimodal interfaces is a new axis of power.
#DigitalCulture #GenerativeAI

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- Thon (AI Horseplay): diffusion models reconfigure the image ecosystem — users seem free, but dependencies persist.
- Philipsen (Aesthetic Protocols): mass platforms flooded by AI art, institutions must rethink value/curation.
- Moskatova (Aesthetics of Promise): tech failures + demos are part of hype/marketing narratives.
- Henning (Affective Realism): Google Pixel 9 rewrites photography.
- Wilde (Anthropomorphization): Eliza Effect vs Character Effect.
#AIArt #AICulture #MediaStudies
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Why this book matters:

Digital transformation = contested cultural infrastructure
Governance = control over narratives of truth, error, agency
Future = hybrid, contested images

A truly noteworthy book on AI & culture. Essential for anyone shaping AI policy, infrastructure, art, or research.
#AI #Aesthetics #CulturalStudies #OpenAccess
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003676423/ai-aesthetics-jan-no%C3%ABl-thon-lukas-wilde

AI Aesthetics | AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics |

This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining in-depth theoretical reflection

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