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This article responds to Glenn Parsons’ threefold objections against engagement aesthetics, demonstrating that Parsons’ critiques are rooted in a limited reading of its philosophical foundations. While Parsons focuse...

This article aims to deconstruct the intricate interaction between humanity and Nature, focusing on contemporary issues related to climate change within the frameworks of rewilding and dewilding. The analysis delves into...

Three contemporary aesthetic approaches address design: functional beauty, adherent beauty, and the aesthetics of everyday life. This article engages with them and confronts the “dilemma of everyday aesthetics,” prop...

In the ongoing ecological crisis, mere conservation of ecosystems in their current state proves insufficient; a pressing need to restore degraded ecosystems arises. Such restoration efforts challenge traditional conserva...

This article explores the gopniki, a post-socialist youth subculture, from an interdisciplinary perspective between culture and digital media. Drawing from theories of subcultural style and aesthetic performativity, and ...

Deep time, encompassing the expansive temporal scale of Earth’s history, often evokes a sense of alienation due to its immensity. However, this estrangement can be mitigated through the aesthetic appreciation of the te...

This article examines how the criteria of clarity, brevity, credibility, and appropriateness, which are rooted in classical rhetoric, can manifest in musical works. It explores the analogy between the arts of music and s...

In this paper, I claim that some hermeneutical concepts developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer might help us elaborate a philosophical understanding of a landscape’s sustainability. In particular, the notion of “situatednes...

This article explores the connections between darkness and sustainability, particularly in contemporary night environments, and the needs of various species. Artificial light plays a vital role in shaping the aesthetics ...

Drawing on Enunciative Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Reception Aesthetics, and Reader Response Criticism, this paper aims to delineate problematic aspects of the conception that a work of art is autonomous and capable o...

This article examines the works of Atsushi Ookubo within the framework of contemporary Japanese Gothic culture, emphasizing the role of the carnivalesque in Gothic aesthetics. Inspired by Julia Round’s Gothic Critical ...

This article examines Mudwoman (2012) and Breathe (2021) by Joyce Carol Oates through the frameworks of cognitive poetics, predictive processing, and philosophical theories of consciousness. Drawing on Daniel Dennett’s...

This article theorises artistic arrhythmia as a collapse of rhythm between form and social commitment in African drama. Using the critical discourse analysis of Irobi’s The Other Side of the Mask and Nwokedi, and drawi...

This paper explores how contemporary non-European artists navigate their complex hybrid identities in a globalised world, with a focus on Moroccan artists Lalla Essaydi and Hassan Hajjaj. Both artists engage with materia...

Warhammer 40,000 (W40K) represents one of the most influential science fiction franchises in contemporary popular culture. This article examines how W40K’s narrative trajectory—from enforced atheism to theocracy—ch...

Environmental design professions, such as landscape architecture and urban design, ultimately make statements about how humans live in the world. To reflect more deeply on how we live and therefore how we design, this ar...

This article dreams and thinks the hypothesis of a utopian “pluriversal Europe” thanks to the study of the “agora-performance” Dispak Dispac’h – Crépuscule européen from Patricia Allio and her friends, coll...