This week I put together a reading list for my digital aura series. I recall starting to write around Thanksgiving — but when I looked back at my reading, I’d started reading for it months earlier. (No wonder it’s felt like such a big endeavor!) I’ve been thinking about taste for a while now, but last spring I decided to dig deeper into it, feeling the pressure of AI on the creative industries: what builds taste? how do aesthetics reflect ideologies? why didn’t I think genAI was art even though it looked like it — what made something art? what was the point of making something yourself if an LLM or diffusion model could generate text and graphics effortlessly? I didn’t know quite what I would end up writing about when I set out on this experiment with more focused reading a year and a half ago. After a few rounds of library borrows, I realized I wasn’t that interested in some of the paths I first explored, and noticed the direction of my library borrows shifting. (This is the beauty…
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