From Hume to Nietzsche: a reading list for the AI taste debate
floguo · x · 2026-09-22
Amid the ongoing "taste / new aesthetics / loss of beauty" discourse, samspike compiled a canonical reading list on taste and aesthetics—Hume, Burke, Kant, Hegel, Ruskin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Morris, Marinetti and more—suggesting you hand it to your agent to summarize. floguo reshared it as a reading list on beauty & aesthetics.
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