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“What aesthetic is this?” Elizabeth Goodspeed on the push to categorise visual culture (opens in new tab)

Online, images are increasingly treated less as singular works than as pieces of a broader aesthetic puzzle – each with a distinct label. But what gets lost when creativity is compressed into searchable categories?

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