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We'll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war. [PDF]
Military AI optimists predict future AI assisting or making command decisions. We instead argue that, at a fundamental level, these predictions are dangerously wrong.
Hunter C, Bowen BE.
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A Functional Model of Kitsch and Art: Linking Aesthetic Appreciation to the Dynamics of Social Motivation [PDF]
With the advent of modernity, change and novelty have become the core values of artistic production. At the same time the derogatory term “kitsch” was coined to contrast truly ground-breaking artistic achievements.
Stefan A. Ortlieb +5 more
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Aesthetic Assessment of Kitsch: A Reading on Bad Taste in Kant’s “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment”
Kitsch, devised as a term of modern aesthetics after the 19th century, indicates an aesthetic value judgment that is identified as ‘bad taste’. It is acknowledged that the issues of aesthetic judgment and taste were systematically addressed for the first
Zeynep Çiğdem Uysal Ürey
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Oskar Schlemmer’s Kitsch (1922): a contextualisation and translation
This article contextualises a previously unpublished manuscript on the subject of kitsch written in 1922 by the Bauhaus practitioner Oskar Schlemmer and provides an original annotated translation as an appendix.
Emily Brayshaw
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Based on the work of Walter Benjamin, the paper focuses on the notion of kitsch, considered as a category for discourse analysis. First, it discusses several levels of analysis of kitsch in discourse. Secondly, it proceeds to a reading of Walter Benjamin’
François Provenzano
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Thesis report entitled “The Kitsch in the romantic writing of Marcel Proust: subversion, transgression and rupture” ABSTRACT: The kitsch projects itself as an aesthetic in the novels of Marcel Proust.
Axel Richard EBA
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Born to stir: instant affect culture and the kitsch aesthetics of emoji images
Emojis are small icons used across digital devices and platforms, and this essay explores their aesthetics to argue that they exemplify kitsch in contemporary digital culture.
Amin Heidari
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Le cerf en Écosse, emblème ou problème ? Confrontation de mémoires collectives réévaluant la dimension kitsch du cerf [PDF]
Le cerf est l’un des cliches kitsch associes a l’Ecosse que l’on retrouve sur une multitude d’objets presentes comme typiquement ecossais, notamment des bouteilles de whisky, des coussins, des tasses et des boites de biscuits shortbread.
Lauren Brancaz-Mccartan
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Las articulaciones del kitsch con la estética camp
El propósito principal de este artículo es realizar una síntesis de las principales discusiones teóricas que han surgido sobre la presencia de la experiencia Kitsch en la cultura de masas y su articulación con la estética camp. Primero, se interpretarán
Dorde Cuvardic García
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‘Making Tragic Places’: dark tourism, kitsch and the commodification of atrocity [PDF]
Certain kinds of death that have been touristified and packaged as commodities have been referred to as 'dark tourism'. It is here where tragic memories are retailed as kitsch mementos in a society of the spectacle.
Philip R. Stone, Alex W. Grebenar
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