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I mean, case in point re: the frustration, right here

Not that it’s not laudable to take a stand against AI art, but…
Headline of an article by Ted Gioia from February 25th titled “The New Aesthetics of Slop: Or What Happens When Vulgar Technocrats Control the Arts”, with a banner picture containing an image of Gioia and the text, “Ted Gioia: The Honest Broker” Headline of an article by Gareth Watkins from February 9th titled “AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism” with the summary “It’s embarrassing, destructive and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right,” also saying it’s a 15-minute read.
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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“Rationality is a deeply problematic concept.” From Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics, edited by Helaine Selin.

I was looking at the Google Books preview of this book, about a subject I desperately need to know more about, and just stumbled across this!
A quote by David Turnbull: “Rationality is a deeply problematic concept. It is profoundly embedded in the hidden assumptions of late twentieth century occidentalism about what it is to be a knowing, moral, sane individual. Indeed it is so embedded that to be anything other than rational is to be ignorant, immoral, insane, or a member of an undifferentiated herd. Hence rationality cannot be treated as simply an epistemological concept about the conditions under which one can know something; it also carries ideological overtones, privileging certain ways of knowing over others. Rationality is a constitutive element in the moral economy. ”Yet despite, or perhaps because of, this central role of rationality, there are no fully articulated rules or criteria for being rational in the acceptance of beliefs or in the pursuit of knowledge, nor is there a single type of rationality. As with all concepts, when the epistemological is overemphasised at the expense of the practical, rationality has a degree of incoherence which seems to reach total intransigence in the recognition that ultimately there can be no rational (as opposed to aesthetic, moral or social) justification for being rational or choosing between types of rationality.”
February 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM