Current Volume
Volume: 23 (2025)
NOTICES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
SHORT NOTES
Art, Trauma, And the Aesthetics of Paul Celan
On Incomprehensibility
A Note on the Weather
ARTICLES
Contemporary Appropriation of Confucian Aesthetics in China: Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping’s Political Discourses on Art and Morality
Uncovering the Flaws in A Philsophy of Cover Songs
Reflections on Cover Songs: Replies to Polite
Contemporary Fanfiction as Decoupled Participatory Sensemaking
In Praise of Dessert
Past-Oriented and Future-Oriented Frames of Familiarity: Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Environments
Volume: 22 (2024)
EDITORIAL
NOTICES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
SHORT NOTES
Fentanyl: Social Somanaesthetic
Everyday Aesthetics and Gratitude
Kant’s Maiden
ARTICLES
In-Between Places: Richard Long’s Walk-Works on Dartmoor and in Japan
The Temporality of the Aesthetic Appreciation of Food and Beverages
Black Bodies in White Spaces: Considering the Black Female Ballet Dancer in South Africa
Past-Oriented and Future-Oriented Frames of Familiarity: Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Environments
How Could Anybody Ever Feel at Home? Aesthetic Familiarity, Epistemic Comfort, and Displacement
That’s Beyond My Imagination!
The Aesthetics of Animal Companions
Aesthetic Value and Gardens
Properness and Pluralism in Functional Beauty
Enlivening and Deadening Green and Gray Spaces: an exploration of Christopher Alexander’s features of living design
Special Volume 12 (2024)
Introduction
Vitality Semiotics: The Ever Beautiful and Its Potential for an Intercultural Approach
Designing Atmospheres: an Aesthetic Practice across the Pluriverse?
Creating Atmospheres as a Pedagogical Task
Beauty as Care. Designing Atmospheres for Healthcare Places
Co-creating Atmospheres: the Use of Design for Vā/Wā, Community, and Common Sense
How Atmospheres Communicate: Aesthetics of Burial Grounds and Car-Showrooms
Designing a Smart Atmosphere in São Paulo: Public Spaces and the Green Image
Aesthetic Evaluation of the Atmosphere in Everyday Environments-A Case Study in Ashiyahama Seaside Town, Japan
Atmosphere in the Images of Contemporary Chinese Illustrators in Exchange with Western Styles of Depiction
The Construction of Intercultural Temporal and Spatial Atmospheres in Sino-Italian Art Exchange Exhibitions: the Exhibition “Forms of Time” as an Example
Special Volume 11 (2024)
Toward a Sustainable Attitude: Aesthetics, the Arts and the Environment
Feeling the Environment: Aesthetic Interestedness and Environmental Aesthetics
Recovering Landscape and Landscape Beauty in Environmental Aesthetics
Landscape Education, Enskilment, and Aesthetics: Complex Skills for Our Time
No Trace, No Waste? The Art of Living in Trashscapes
Frugality. An Aesthetic Category for a Sustainable Art of Living
On the Significance of Eco-Phenomenology for Theories of Sustainability
Imaginaries, Scenarios, and Materialities: The Arts as Part of Ecology
Virtue Appreciation and Sustainability in Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch
Back to Intermittence, or Rediscovering Web-Materiality: An Artistic Quest for a Sustainable Internet Aesthetics
An Aesthetics of Minimal Resources: Affective Ecologies at the Encounter with Environmental Ethics in Alicia Barney’s Artistic Practice
Volume: 21 (2023)
EDITORIAL
NOTICES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
SHORT NOTES
Hearing a New World
Crossing the Picture: Theories and Genealogies of Environmental Images
Reflections on Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters
Eco-relational Aesthetics: Wandering Around Dualistic Ruins
SYMPOSIUM
Symposium on Thomas Wartenberg’s Thoughtful Images
Reading Texts and Pictures
Illustrating Philosophy: Comments on Tom Wartenberg’s Thoughtful Images
A Typology of Illustration
Further Reflections on Visual Illustrations of Philosophy: A Response to Freeland, Schellekens, and Strayer
ARTICLES
Wisdom Regarding Beauty. Self-effacement and One’s Right Relationship to Beauty
Experiential Time in Some Modern Poetry
SYMPOSIUM
Symposium on Taste: A Philosophy of Food by Sarah Worth
Taste, Knowledge, and Discernment: On Sarah Worth’s Taste
The Pleasure of Knowing: Comments on
Sarah Worth’s Taste
Eat, Taste, Know – Reflections on Sarah Worth’s
Taste: A Philosophy of Food
Taste: A Philosophy of Food
ARTICLES
Aesthetics of/and the Universe
Duck Tape Down
Aesthetic Melancholy
What in the World
Constructing a Good Life – Aesthetic Practices in Tiny Living
Overcoming Climate Breakdown Denial and Neglect through the Aesthetics of Nature
Equipment as Art, Art as Equipment: Notes on Film, Architecture, and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Culture
Gardens and Plasticity
Volume: 20 (2022)
EDITORIAL
NOTICES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
SHORT NOTES
Machizukuri (Neighborhood Making): Collective World-Making in Traditional Japanese Neighborhoods
Reflections on Beauty
ARTICLES
Resonance and Atmosphere in Architectural Aesthetics
Three Dimensions of Intimacy in Literary Reading
Aphorism and Anti-Aphorism: Language and Aesthetics
Post-postmodernism and the Emergence of Heterolinational Literatures
The Aesthetic Impact of the Garden of Eden
SYMPOSIUM
Symposium on Thinking with Images: An Enactivist Aesthetics by John Carvalho
Against Theory—Again (Though with Reservations)
Thinking with Film: On John Carvalho’s reading of Godard’s Le Mépris
John Carvalho’s Thinking with Images, An Enactivist Aesthetics
More Thinking About Thinking with Images: A Response to Ivan Gaskell, Deborah Knight and Sonia Sedivy
Special Volume 10 (2022)
Special Volumes
Twenty Years of Contemporary Aesthetics
Contemporary Aesthetics: What’s in a Name?
Going Global: A Cautiously Optimistic Manifesto
Living Aesthetics in China: Confucian Aesthetics as a New Direction
Place, Race, Gender and Materiality: Bisa Butler Making the Last, First and the First, Last in the Modern Museum
Decoloniality, Identity, and Aesthetic Publicity
Reshaping Aesthetics and Aesthetic Sensibility in a Hybrid Environment
A Big Disenchantment