If the aesthetic aspect of images created by artificial intelligence has now reached the ultimate stage of photorealism, their semantic field remains human, all too human.
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Distinguished by his cane and well-tailored suits, the dandy is first and foremost a man who values intellectual beauty. And in a conformist world, he proudly flouts norms, dreaming of himself as «the last glimmer of heroism in decadence», in the words of Baudelaire. Literary dandyism is thus an insurrection of elegance against the trivial. And in this little game of defiance, a figure has emerged in French-speaking Switzerland: Florian Eglin. Meet a literary aesthete who packs a punch.
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The body positive movement aims to neutralize beauty standards under the guise of fighting discrimination. This approach, taken to the extreme as under the Maoist regime, deprives the individual of the vital impulse inspired by beauty.
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A subtle tradition dating back to the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular to David Hume, one of its leading exponents, makes the aesthetic evaluation of a thing a personal feeling, but one caused by properties actually possessed by that thing.
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Is beauty in things or in our minds? According to British philosopher Roger Scruton, neither option is satisfactory. By pointing out the paradoxical nature of aesthetic judgments, he attempts to overcome the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism.
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