"New aesthetics" has become a managerial-class buzzword: whoever reaches it must coin a new word
wordgrammer · x · 2026-10-30
A pointed take on AI discourse: "new aesthetics" has already become a signifier of managerial-class striving — using the phrase is proof you don't have it. The paradox: whoever actually reaches "new aesthetics" first will have to invent a new word to describe it.
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