legitimacy

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Auction Houses Are Certifying AI Art — and the Legitimacy Crisis Is Just Beginning

Christie's 'Augmented Intelligence' sale and the 6,000-artist petition against it reveal something the art market has not confronted: who gets to define what counts as a work of art when authorship becomes contested at the institutional level.

Elena VasquezMarch 18, 20269 min read

History

The Weimar Comparison Is No Longer a Metaphor

Political scientists have moved from invoking Weimar Germany as a rhetorical warning to formalizing it as an analytical framework for measuring democratic legitimacy collapse. The distance between metaphor and model is the distance between alarm and diagnosis.

William KesslerMarch 18, 20268 min read