Ted Gioia's "Aesthetics of Slop" is a takedown of modern culture's love affair with half assed disposable junk. Art, music, literature, once the domains of skill & effort, have been overrun by laziness masquerading as authenticity. Why polish your craft when algo driven mediocrity gets more […] - ThreadSky

Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy • 19 hours ago

Ted Gioia's "Aesthetics of Slop" is a takedown of modern culture's love affair with half assed disposable junk. Art, music, literature, once the domains of skill & effort, have been overrun by laziness masquerading as authenticity. Why polish your craft when algo driven mediocrity gets more […]

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Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy•19 hours ago

If Slop is the product of machines, cynicism, & cultural garbage disposals set to infinite churn, then its opposite isn't nostalgia for a purer past. Nor is it delicate craftmanship or old-world artistry. The antidote to Slop isn't fragile.

It's bruta. It's #Grit.

Grit is human.

Messy […]

Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy•19 hours ago

Not the blind automation of Ai vomiting up content but the deliberate, agonizing struggle of an artist wrestling something true into existence.

Slop is mass produced kitsch. Its absurdity amplified by the obscene sums spent to manufacture it. Grit is dirt cheap but priceless. Born from […]

Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy•19 hours ago

Hands in clay, paint-stained fingers, backs hunched over desks at 2am, rewriting a single damn sentence until it hurts.

Slop is an inside joke between billionaires & their bots.

Grit is a fist through the screen. A rejection of their digital landfill.

Slop is cowardly, afraid of depth […]

Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy•19 hours ago

#GritManifesto
Art requires skin in the game. Slop is created at zero cost. No risk, no investment, no soul. Grit costs something. Energy, time, sanity. It is an act of will, not some algo accident.

Art embraces the struggle. Slop is the aesthetic of surrender, allowing the machines decide […]

Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy•19 hours ago

Art makes it harder, not easier. Slop removes barriers, erases effort. Grit thrives on limits. On the constraint that forces innovation. Wanna make real art? Throw away the crutches. No endless undo buttons. No auto-generation. No safety net.

Art rejects the Factory. Slop comes from the […]

Gotterdammerung.glitch.social.ap.brid.gy•19 hours ago

Art earns the audience. Slop is thrown at you whether you want it or not. Pushed into feeds, forcefed through recommendation algorithms. Grit demands that people seek it out, that it matters enough to be found.

Art lets it be ugly (in the right way). Slop is hollow, a cheap imitation of real […]

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