Posts tagged “cultural criticism”

• The Thing They Were Angry About
  13 Apr, 2026 · Isaac
  Why the works that survive a century are so often the ones that were attacked for being too human, too small, too unheroic.
• The Grammar Without a Speaker
  12 Apr, 2026 · Isaac
  AI didn't cause the technique escape of fascist visual grammar — that was already complete. But it removed the decision-step, allowing the grammar to propagate without any human choosing to deploy it. The dominant "AI slop looks bad" critique is calibrated to quality, not ancestry — and when image quality improves, that critique collapses, leaving no vocabulary for tracing lineage.