Architecture Emerging from Landscape: A Reading of Spinoza in Landscape Architecture Gokhan Balik Abstract In what follows, Benedict de Spinoza’s ontology of immanence and monism is deployed as a means to launch a rethinking in between landscape and architecture. Public urban landscape, I suggest, is not a static and neutral construction, but a complex […]
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Architecture Emerging from Landscape: A Reading of Spinoza in Landscape Architecture
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Reflections on “Catching the Ghost: House Dance and Improvisational Mastery”
Reflections on “Catching the Ghost: House Dance and Improvisational Mastery”* Renee Conroy Abstract This essay is a constructive response to Christian Kronsted’s “Catching the Ghost: House Dance and Improvisational Mastery,” in which he develops three topics introduced in his novel treatment of this club dance form. First, I consider the nature of the relationship […]
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Catching the Ghost: House Dance and Improvisational Mastery
Catching the Ghost: House Dance and Improvisational Mastery* Christian Kronsted Abstract I interviewed seven expert house dancers regarding their improvisational practice and discovered several intriguing testimonial consistencies. House dancers articulated a feeling of simultaneously being in control and not in control of their movements. Furthermore, in peak moments of improvisation, interviewees were often surprised […]
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Baking as a Means of Non-verbal Expression: An Aesthetic Inquiry on Conventual Pastry
Baking as a Means of Non-verbal Expression: An Aesthetic Inquiry on Conventual Pastry Maddalena Borsato Abstract The aim of this essay is to philosophically explore the domain of conventual pastry by understanding baking as a form of aesthetic expression. I intend to investigate the aesthetic meaning of making sweets, both for the specificity […]
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Aesthetics from the Visual Artists’ Viewpoint
Aesthetics from the Visual Artists’ Viewpoint Dena Shottenkirk Abstract How to characterize aesthetics has been revived with Bence Nanay’s Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception. Reviewing criticisms made by Dustin Stokes, this paper makes the argument that Nanay’s problem is broader than what Stokes points to, as it involves the problem of property attribution and […]
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Authenticity, Universality, and Expression in Song: The Case of Flamenco
Authenticity, Universality, and Expression in Song: The Case of Flamenco Peter Manuel Abstract This article explores questions of aesthetic expression and meaning in song, focusing in particular on the enigmatic dynamics involved in song’s combination of abstract and lyrical dimensions of import. These questions are especially overt and actively debated in flamenco, where an […]
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Making Sense of ‘Tropical’ Kitsch
Making Sense of ‘Tropical’ Kitsch Max Ryynänen, Anna-Sofia Sysser Abstract The ‘tropical’ has not just been “imported” to Northern spas and travel agency advertisements. Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples echo tourism experiences, have roots in “feel-good” Americana, and belong to colonial imagery. The tropical is often portrayed in simplified ways, even though there […]