Current Volume
Volume: 24 (2026)
NOTICES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
SHORT NOTES
Reflections on Algorithmic Art Beyond Mathematical Structure
ARTICLES
Aesthetic Vulnerability: An Experiential Category for Anthropogenic Sensory Pollution
SYMPOSIUM
The Symposium on Nicola Perullo’s Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects
Flowing with Perullo’s Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects
Aesthetics as a Path to an Inclusive Solution
What is Relational Aesthetics All About?
Undisciplined Aesthetics: a Proposal for Repairing Perception
ARTICLES
Listening as Ethics: Divergent Ontologies of Sound in Japanese Ma, Cage, and Schopenhauer
SYMPOSIUM
The Symposium on Wolfgang Welsch’s We Have Always Been Transcultural
What Can We Learn from Art in Times of Crisis? A Review of Wolfgang Welsch’s We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example
Transculturality Now, Ever, and Forever: Comments on Wolfgang Welsch’s We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example
Transculturality as the “Very Elixir of Human Existence”: Wolfgang Welsch’s Masterstroke about the Transdisciplinarity of the Arts, the Mixed Character of All Cultures, and the Ambivalence of Human Civilization
Response by Wolfgang Welsch
ARTICLES
Thresholds as Affordances for Contemplation: Japanese Exemplars
The Aliveness of Jazz
Volume: 23 (2025)
EDITORIAL
NOTICES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
SHORT NOTES
Reflections on Jianrong Liao’s Recent Book, Arnold Berleant’s Environmental Aesthetics and Everyday Aesthetics
Art, Trauma, And the Aesthetics of Paul Celan
On Incomprehensibility
A Note on the Weather
SYMPOSIUM
The Symposium on Arnold Berleant’s Works
Arnold Berleant and the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics
Berleant’s Critique of Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited, Again
Descriptive Aesthetics
Arnold Berleant’s Engagement with the Aesthetics of Engagement
Aesthetic Engagement, Descriptive Aesthetics, and the Reformation of Aesthetics: Responses to Mäcklin, Ryynänen, and Vassiliou
ARTICLES
Cool as an Aesthetic Quality
Relational Perception, Ecological Transition, and Artisanal Intelligence: Towards an Aesthetics for the Future
In Defense of Racebending
Working-Class Aesthetics and the Transgressive Chronotope of Demolition Derby
“A Place of Whites”: the History of Brazilian Art
Digital Color and Aesthetics: A Numerical Performance That Speaks to Presentness
On Conversation, Its Modes, Pleasures, and Perils
Time and Atmosphere
Poetic Lines and Social Thought
Context and Form in Garden Classification
Poiesis of Care: The Aesthetic-Performative Value of Delicacy
Contemporary Appropriation of Confucian Aesthetics in China: Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping’s Political Discourses on Art and Morality
Uncovering the Flaws in A Philosophy of Cover Songs
Reflections on Cover Songs: Replies to Polite
Contemporary Fanfiction as Decoupled Participatory Sensemaking
In Praise of Dessert
Special Volume 13 (2025)
Special Volumes
Introduction
Preserving the Meaning in an Age of Algorithms and AI
Human and AI Perspectives on Academic Aesthetics
Anticipation and Aesthetics After Automation
Aesthetics in the Age of AI: A Methodological Self-Delineation
An Agent or a Tool? Artificial Intelligence, Heidegger’s Robot and the Ignorant’s Toaster
The Mimesis of Difference: A Deleuzian Study of Generative AI in Artistic Production
Is Generative AI in Aesthetics Really New?: The Visualist Perspective
On Deepfakes and Dog Whistles: Thinking Aesthetically about Generative AI
Prompting Aesthetic Ideologies of Generative Text-to-Image AI
Beauty and the Bit: AI-driven Philosophical Aesthetics
AppraiSet: Discussions on a New Art Dataset
Data Mining and AI Visualization of Key Terms from U.S. Supreme Court Cases from 1789 to 2022
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
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