Aesthetic judgement

So my link to Ann Leckie's piece on liking things that are in some sense not "good" has lead to a really interesting discussion. I'd like to pull up some of my thoughts here, and separate the abstract underpinnings out from discussing the Hugo slates, which was one of the examples given.

( amateur philosophy )

I slightly have the feeling that I'm rehashing Plato here, but there are worse things.