contributors — MONGREL MATTER

List of contributors in alphabetical order

Lars Aagaard-Mogensen (Wassard Elea) is, the world growing smaller and smaller, a less and less known philosopher and sometime compressionist artist, with few bodily satisfactions, but much sense intact, yet saw in who’s whos interests: handmade fast cars and used stamps; device: cultivate humour, be(come) honest, find the whole truth, and resist governments!

Derek Allan is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University. His principal research interests are the theory of art, European literature, and visual art. Derek’s publications cover topics such as Dostoevsky, Laclos, Goya and the twentieth century art theorist and novelist, André Malraux.

Dimitris Apostolopoulos is assistant professor of philosophy at NTU Singapore. His research is focused on phenomenology and its history, and he is especially interested in how conceptual resources from phenomenology can clarify questions and debates in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of history. He regularly teaches classes on a range of periods and topics in the history of Western philosophy.

Niklas Arnold is a young photographer from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After obtaining his bachelor degree in photography in 2019, he is working on several projects, including wedding photography, experimental portraits, macro and Lost Places photography. Highlighting a certain aspect of reality by relying on primal forms is the foundation of his compositions. For more see: Niklasarnold.photography

Randall Auxier is Professor of Philosophy and Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is author or co-author of several books and editor/co-editor/contributor for many more, including eight volumes of the Library of Living Philosophers. The latter include volumes on Arthur Danto, Richard Rorty, and Umberto Eco. He was editor of the journal The Personalist Forum, founding editor of The Pluralist, and is currently Deputy Chief Editor of Eidos: A Journal of the Philosophy of Culture. He also writes about popular culture, maintains a blog, plays in local bands, and sometimes runs for political office (for the fun of it).

Babette Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City and has taught in Boston, Tübingen, San Diego, and Berlin. She writes on the philosophy of art and music as on museum culture and poetics in addition to philosophy of science and technology. She also writes on the ethnography or sociology of philosophy as on women in philosophy, and the stylistic differences between analytic and continental philosophy.

Béla Bacsó is Professor of Aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He has been Head of Department of Aesthetics (1996-2016) and Head of the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies (2000-2012) at ELTE and President of the Hungarian Philosophical Society (2007-2010). He has published extensively on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, focusing on Husserlian phenomenology, Aristotle, Herder, Nietzsche and Heidegger’s existential philosophy, Schleiermacher’s and Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. He has edited numerous volumes on aesthetics and translated many cardinal works of continental thought into Hungarian (e.g. Heidegger, Gadamer).

Rowan Bailey is Director of Graduate Education in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield. Her publications include: 'Concrete Thinking for Sculpture' (parallax, 21.3, 2015: 241-258), 'Where is the Brainbody in the Stories of Curation' Transimage 2018: 138-157) and ‘Sculptural Plasticity’ (Philosophy Today, 63(4), 2019:1093-1109).

Daniel Baker is an artist. A Romani Gypsy, born in Kent in the UK, he holds a PhD on the subject of Gypsy aesthetics from the Royal College of Art, London. His work is included in documenta fifteen and Manifesta 14, and has featured in several editions of the Venice Biennale, both as artist (2007, 2011, 2022) and curator (FUTUROMA, 2019). Baker’s work examines the role of artistic practice in the enactment of social agency via the reconfiguration of aspects of Gypsy visuality. His work is exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide. Publications include WE ROMA: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, Ex Libris, FUTUROMA and GRT LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive . Lives and works in London.

A cultural theorist, critic, video artist and curator, Mieke Bal writes on cultural analysis, literature and art, focusing on gender, migratory culture, the critique of capitalism, and political art. After Madame B (2014) and Reasonable Doubt, on René Descartes (2016), she made a 16-channel video-installation Don Quijote: Sad Countenances (2019) and It’s About Time! Reflections on Urgency (2020). www.miekebal.org

Vinod Balakrishnan is with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Instiute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. He is a practising poet, a reviewer of books, a motivational speaker and a yoga enthusiast. He teaches Creative Writing, Communication, Literary Theory and Aesthetics at NIT Trichy. He has edited the 12-volume "Encyclopaedia of World Mythology" in Malayalam. He co-authored "Conversations with Indian Political Cartoonists: Politickle Lines". His book on "Somaesthetics and Yogasutra" is in the press. Besides, his articles have appeared in Partial Answers, Archiv Orientalni, a/b Auto/Biography Studies, Journal of Dharma, Indian Literature, HUMOUR, The European Journal of Humour Studies, among others. His interests include Life Writing, Film Studies, Somaesthetics, Writings about India, and the role of the Public Intellectual.

Arnold Berleant is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University, former Secretary-General and Past President of the International Association of Aesthetics, former Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society for Aesthetics, and the founding editor of Contemporary Aesthetics. His books and articles in philosophy focus on aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, and ethics.

Eugene the Blissful (Stepanenko) is a Russian crossdisciplinary artist, who left Russia after its invasion of Ukraina. Since then, he has relocated to Georgia. @EugeneBlissful

Linda Boļšakova is an interdisciplinary, research-based artist, working with performance and installation, who graduated from the Contemporary Art Practice and Philosophy course at Dundee University with a first-class Honours degree. She has exhibited at Sculpture Quadrennial Riga and ALMA gallery, the latter being shortlisted for the Purvīša art prize.

Pauline von Bonsdorff has been Professor of Art Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland since 2002. Her research interests include arts as practices of self- and word-formation, and the role of aesthetics in childhood, emphasising agency, embodiment, imagination and intersubjectivity. She has also published on environmental and urban as well as phenomenological aesthetics.

Martin Boszorád (1985) received his PhD in the field of aesthetics after earlier studies in aesthetic education and German language and literature. He is currently the head of the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia) and member of the Slovak Association for Aesthetics and the Czech Society for Aesthetics. His research interests include mainly the theorization of popular culture, in a wide sense. Although he is a man of the periphery, he considerably appreciates the mainstream.

Catherine F Botha is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. Her research is focused mainly on aesthetics, most especially the philosophy of dance. Her interest lies also in the phenomenological tradition and its precursors in the continental tradition (most especially the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger), and this is often the lens through which she approaches her writing in aesthetics. She is currently the co-secretary of the South African Centre for Phenomenology, and is also a registered ballet teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance. She offers free tuition in classical ballet to UJ students at the UJ Art Academy.

Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette obtained his PhD (2018) in Indian Philosophies from the Institute for Indology and Tibetology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, in Munich, Germany. He is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy (DoP) at MAHE. He published extensively on the early developments of Sanskrit philosophical doxography and now researches on the phenomena of list-making and taxonomy within the spiritual exercises of South-Asian gnostic yogas. In general, he is exploring the ancient South-Asian intellectual dimensions of spiritual life, especially in the scholastic and ascetic aspects of their expression. In brief, he has taken interest in what he describes as the ‘yoga of reason’, or the ‘path of knowledge’ (jnana-yoga) pursued by Gnostics belonging either to the Hindu, Buddhist, or Jain traditions.

Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, where she is also Director and Chair at the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Her book publications include: Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (2003), The Sublime in Modern Philosophy (2013), and Between Nature and Culture: The Aesthetics of Modified Environments (co-authored, 2018).

Peter Brezňan, PhD (1978) – poet and aesthetician. He works at the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. He observes the sphere of aesthetics from the the vantage point of Critical Theory. With a group of Slovak writers and poets, he organises the international literary festival Novotvar which takes place in autumn in Bratislava. His poems have been published in several literary journals in Slovakia and Czech Republic. He published a collection of poems entitled The Experiences of These Days (of Animals) in 2017.

Iain Campbell is a Teaching Fellow in Aesthetics at Edinburgh College of Art and a Research Associate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. He has written on topics across philosophy, music, sound studies, and art theory for publications including parallax, Contemporary Music Review, Sound Studies, and Continental Philosophy Review. His current research focuses on experimentation and on the differences and continuities between conceptualisations of this notion in philosophy, art, music, and science. He is co-editor, with Natasha Lushetich, of Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (Routledge, 2021).

John M. Carvalho, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and Associate Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, is the author of Thinking with Images: An Enactivist Aesthetics (Routledge 2018) and of several dozen essays published in journals or anthologies on the history of ancient Greek philosophy, 20th century French philosophy and aesthetics, especially the aesthetics of music and motion pictures.

Curtis L. Carter is Donald J. Schuenke Chair Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University and Les Aspin Center for Government, Washington, D. C. He is an author of Border Crossings: Aesthetics into the Arts, and numerous other works on the arts including visual arts, dance and philosophy of art; published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the Asican Journal of Aesthetics, and various Chinese venues. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences in China, Europe, and the USA.

Clive Cazeaux is Professor of Aesthetics in the School of Art and Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. He is the author of Art, Research, Philosophy (Routledge 2017) and Metaphor and Continental Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida (Routledge 2007), and the editor of The Continental Aesthetics Reader (Routledge 2011, 2nd edition). His main areas of philosophical interest are aesthetics from Kant to phenomenology, and the philosophies of artistic research audio drama, and metaphor, especially the role metaphor plays in how we carve up the world and think.

Sarah Cheang holds a BA in History of Design from Brighton University, an MA in Art History from Sussex University. She completed her DPhil at Sussex University in 2003. Her work on Western representations of China, and more particularly the collecting and consumption of Chinese material culture in Britain from 1890, has led to prize-winning publications on ceramics, textiles, interior design, and even Pekingese dogs. She also curated the twentieth-century section of the exhibition Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain 1650–1930 (Brighton Museum and Royal Pavilion, 2008), which won best temporary exhibition at the Museum and Heritage Awards.

Cheng Xiangzhan is a Professor of Chinese Aesthetics, School of Literature and Journalism, Shandong University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Literature from Shandong University in 1995. His publications include The Aesthetics of Triangle of Literary Heart (文心三角): the Modern Transformation of Ancient Chinese Theory of Literary Heart, The Study of Ancient Chinese Narrative Poetry, A Modern Perspective on the Core Questions in Aesthetics of Literature and Art, and An Anthology of T’ang Poetry. During his stay at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he worked on a project entitled “the Chinese Conception of Fecundity of Life (sheng-sheng, 生生) in the Axial Age and the Construction of Contemporary Eco-Aesthetics.”

Peter Cheyne teaches philosophy and literature at Shimane University, and is Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at Durham University. He publishes on philosophy, literature, and religion, his latest works including Coleridge’s Contemplative Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2020) and, as co-editor, The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Justin Clemens publishes in a variety of genres. His most recent books are Limericks, Philosophical and Literary (Surpllus 2019) and, with Thomas H. Ford, Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius (Melbourne University Press, 2023). He teaches at the University of Melbourne.

Tom Cochrane is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Flinders University in Adelaide. He specialises in aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. He is the author of 'The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states' (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' (Oxford University Press, 2021). He also edited the collection 'The Emotional Power of Music' (Oxford University Press 2013).

Timothy M. Costelloe is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William & Mary. He holds Doctoral Degrees in Philosophy (Emory University, 2001) and Sociology (Boston University, 1996), and has primary research and teaching interests in aesthetics and history of philosophy. He is the author of Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (Routledge, 2007), The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein (Cambridge, 2013), The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind (Edinburgh, 2018), and editor of The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, 2012).

Paola Crespi is an independent researcher interested in the interdisciplinary area circumscribed broadly by the subjects of Philosophy, Critical Theory, Performance and Media Studies. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and her book Rhythm and Critique, co-edited with Sunil Manghani, has recently been published by Edinburgh University Press. She is a soon-to-be mother, a qualified swimming teacher and a lover of all movement-based practices.

Matthew Crippen has held professorships around the world. Nominated for teaching awards, his research intersects history, cognitive science and cross-cultural value theory, with specific interests in embodiment, protest movements and the aesthetic, political and psychological functioning of cities and popular art. Outside academia, he has worked as a musician, music instructor and gymnastics coach.

Jessica X. Daboin is a visual artist and a doctoral researcher in aesthetics at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, who has also worked in cultural mediation and diplomacy at UNESCO. She has a forthcoming book titled La teneur de vérité de l’oeuvre d’art autonome dans l’esthétique d’Adorno, which will be released by French publishing house L’Harmattan.

Alan Daboin is a researcher in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Specialising in matters related to philosophical methodology, phenomenology, and ethics, his latest publications can be found in Philosophy and Literature and International Philosophical Quarterly. Besides academia, he is dedicated to the creation and production of electronic music across different genres.

Nicholas Davey (b.1950) was educated at the Universities of York, Sussex and Tübingen. He has lectured at the City University London (I976-79), at the University of Manchester (I989-80), the University of Wales Institute Cardiff Institute (I981-I996) and is presently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and at the University of Dundee. His principal teaching and research interests are in aesthetics and hermeneutics. At the University of Wales and at the University of Dundee he established new graduate and post-graduate courses in art and philosophy and as Dean built the School of Humanities. He has published widely in the field of aesthetics and hermeneutic theory. His book, Unquiet Understanding, Gadamer and Philosophical Hermeneutics (2006), is published with the State University Press of New York and his book Unfinished Worlds, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer is now published with Edinburgh University Press. He is currently writing a monograph Negative Hermeneutics concerning a philosophical defence of hermeneutics and the humanities.

Stephen Davies taught philosophy at the University of Auckland, specialising in philosophy of art. His books include The Artful Species: Aesthetics , Art, and Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Philosophy of Art (Wiley-Blackwell, second edition, 2016) and Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

James Davies is an undergraduate in philosophy and evolutionary biology at the Australian National University.

Richard Deming is the Director of Creative Writing and a Senior Lecturer in English at Yale University, where he has taught since 2002. A poet, art critic, and theorist, Richard explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. His most recent book of poems, Day for Night, appeared in 2016. He is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP, 2008), and Art of the Ordinary: the Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Literature, and Philosophy (Cornell UP, 2018).

Fabrizio Desideri is professor of Aesthetics at the University of Florence. He is Editor in Chief of the online journal «Aisthesis». For the Publisher Mimesis, he directs the editorial series «Estetica/Mente/Linguaggi». His last two books are: Origini dell’estetico. Dalle emozioni al giudizio (Carocci 2018), and Walter Benjamin e la percezione dell’arte (Morcelliana 2018).

Nina Eidsheim has written books about voice, race, and materiality and is Professor of Musicology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the founder and Director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices.

Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of seven books, including Werner Herzog––Filmmaker and Philosopher (2019) and An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (2002, 2014), as well as many articles in aesthetics, German philosophy, and philosophy and literature. He is the General Editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature.

Jale N. Erzen is Professor Emeritus (Middle East Tech. University, Faculty of Architecture), painter, and art historian. Paintings exhibited in Turkish and International collections; published on art, architecture and aesthetics in Turkey and abroad; guest lecturer in the US, France, Japan, Italy and Slovenia. Past President of the International Assc. of Aesthetics, founder and president of Sanart Assc. for Aesthetics and Visual Culture (1991-2010), recipient of Turkish and international awards for art and architecture; and French Ministry of Culture Chevalier distinction.

Mahmood Fazal is a Walkley award-winning writer. He is currently working as an investigative reporter for the ABC's Background Briefing program and writing a memoir due to be published by HarperCollins.

Gene Fendt is Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where he has been teaching for 35 years. Beside the usual academic writing, he has also written poetry (several recently translated into Polish) and plays, for which he has won a number of prizes.

Lilli Isabel Förster finished her master’s in Aesthetics at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany), after passing her bachelor’s degree with distinction in Fashion Design and Philosophy. Currently, she is writing her PhD at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.

Gene Flenady is a lecturer in philosophy at Monash University, and believes philosophical education should be transformative one. His research is primarily in German Idealism, G.W.F. Hegel in particular. He is interested in the potential of Hegelian metaphysics to help in diagnosing the ethical limitations of reductive forms of materialism and contemporary liberal capitalism.

Kate Fim is a California based artist. Originally from Russia, Kate spent her early years moving through the world before finally landing in the USA. She studied psychology at Moscow State University and Marketing at University of Pennsylvania; and enjoyed working in marketing for many years. As a conceptual artist, her creations are informed by both her womanhood and her profession as a photographer. Her work is heavily metaphorical and explores connections between a person fragility and society, femininity and temporary nature of human life. She uses the narrative spaces of the camera and believes that art can change people's perceptions. Kate's work has been showcased in personal and group exhibitions in the United States, France, Spain, and published in Black & White (U.S), Fraction, New Statesmen. She continues to exhibit her work internationally around the world. www.katefim.com

Ivan Gaskell is a cultural historian working at the intersection of history, art history, anthropology, museology, and philosophy. He incorporates philosophy of art and artifacts into historical writing and exhibition practice.

Brittany Gentry specialises in philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics. Specifically, she works on questions in philosophy of time, epistemology of measurement, epistemology of trust, and philosophy of physics and mathematics. Some of her work on philosophy of time looks at how clocks, physical theories, and epistemology of measurement can be used to critique and inform metaphysical accounts of time. Her work in epistemology of trust considers the role of prior experience in developing beliefs about trustworthiness with respect to scientific authority and AI.

Bessie Goldberg, PhD, is an independent scholar who lives in Toronto with her partner, her daughter, and their new dog (who is still making up her mind about them). She writes and teaches about language and literature. Storytelling is both the focus of her research and a daily activity that she enjoys sharing with family and friends.

Rebecca R. Gould is Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature, at the University of Birmingham, working at the intersections of literary, political, and legal theory. Developing and current interests include free speech and comparative legal cultures. Her books include the award-winning Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (YUP, 2016). She has translated books from Georgian and Persian, while her articles have received awards ranging from the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize to the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages Association’s Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship.

David Goldblatt is the author of Art and Ventriloquism in the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture and is co-author of Jazz and the Philosophy of Art with Theodore Gracyk and Lee Brown. He is co-editor of Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, now in its 4rd edition and of The Aesthetics of Architecture: Philosophical Investigations into the Art of Building. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at Denison University.

Theodore Gracyk specialises in both the aesthetics of music and 18th century aesthetics. He is author the widely cited Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock (Duke University Press, 1996) Other publications include I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity (Temple University Press, 2002, and co-winner of the 2002 Woody Guthrie Award), On Music (Routledge, 2013), and numerous essays. Co-editor (with Andrew Kania) of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music (2011), he also co-edited (with Robert Stecker) The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from 2013 to 2023. His most recent book is Making Meaning in Popular Music: Philosophical Essays (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic).

Iria (Kyriaki) Grammenou was born and raised in Greece. Having also lived in the U.S. and Germany, she studied Political Theory and History of Philosophy. My PhD was about the intersection of Philosophy and Literature. I enjoy spending time with both human and non-human companions and discussing philosophy with friends and strangers.

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include: Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge; Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory; and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness. Editor of numerous volumes, he is presently completing a new book on the contribution literary experience makes to the formation of self and sensibility, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood.

Ido Hartogsohn is an assistant professor at the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society, at Bar Ilan University. He is also the founder of the Psychedelic Video Museum, an online museum dedicated to the study of psychedelic aesthetics.

Vishwam Gurudas Heckert is a yoga minister & teacher trainer with the Heart of Living Yoga Foundation and is the founder of Flowing with Life where he runs retreats, teaches online yoga and creative writing classes as well as offering coaching and support for individuals and organisations. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh for his work on anarchism and sexuality and is co-editor of a book by that name. Vishwam is also a bodyworker, permaculture designer, lay herbalist and poet. His writing on ethics, ecology and social transformation has appeared in a variety of publications including Permaculture Magazine, Bella Caledonia,Less: A Journal of Degrowth in Scotland, Reforesting Scotland as well as more scholarly books and journals. He currently lives in Shetland with his partner Paul.

Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, PhD, is the program coordinator and professor of the Masters in Counseling program at California State University San Bernardino. She teaches about death, dying and bereavement throughout the US and internationally. Her unique ideas and practices can be found in her many books and articles about grief that represent a departure from the conventional models of grief psychology. Her book, The Crafting of grief: Aesthetic Responses to Loss (Routledge, 2017), was written along with John Winslade. She can reached via her website, rememberingpractices.com

Majid Heidari is Assistant Professor at Ferdows Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran and interested in metaphors that construct social tensions. To study how opposing narratives impact Aesthetics, he has adopted a range of different approaches such as organizing intergroup dialogues, writing for independent media and art journals, publishing a collection of short stories and podcasts, conducting action research and knowledge-to-action projects such as participatory performance arts and collaborative art projects. He wrote on Iran’s Aesthetics, the Tension between Islamic Mysticism and Scholastic Theology, the Role of Rhetoric in Iranian Aesthetics, and Metaphors of Oppression and Discrimination.

Bernd Heinrich is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contributions to the study of insect physiology and behaviour, as well as bird behaviour. In addition to many scientific publications, Heinrich has written over a dozen highly praised books, mostly related to his research examining the physiological, ecological and behavioural adaptations of animals and plants to their physical environments.

Richard Hickman is Emeritus Professor of Aesthetic Development at the University of Cambridge. He is an Emeritus Fellow and artist in residence at Homerton College, where he was Dean for several years. He is also a fellow of the National Society for Education in art and design. He has been actively involved in the training of art and design teachers since 1985, at the University of Reading, the National Institute of Education in Singapore and (since 1997) at the University of Cambridge. He has been awarded the Pilkington prize for outstanding teaching at Cambridge, has served in Singapore as Outstanding Educator in Residence; and in 2020 was a visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University. He has received the Sir Herbert Read lifetime achievement award from the International Society for Education through Art, presented in Melbourne, Australia.

Emily Hodges is a Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy at Brown University. She is fascinated by intersubjectivity, especially in terms of attention, aesthetic experience, moral psychology, community, and place-creation. Her research has recently focused on aesthetic free play in relation to architecture and place, as well as moral contemplation and self-cultivation in relation to community.

Jason Holt is Professor of Kinesiology at Acadia University (Canada). He does research in aesthetics and the philosophy of sport and culture. He also writes experimental poetry and fiction. Among his recent books are Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport (2019) and Poems for Another Time (2021).

Nóra Horváth is a Hungarian philosopher. Associate professor at Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary. She is the chief editor of the Hungarian cultural journal Műhely. Horváth worked with Pál Frenák as his philosophical consultant on the piece named CAGE (2019); https://trafo.hu/en/programs/dance_cage

Seth Horvitz is an interdisciplinary artist, electronic musician, and designer whose work focuses on the relationship between human perception, iterative process, and the idiosyncratic behavior of machines. While most known for her experimental techno productions as Rrose, he has also composed music for automated piano and collaborated with avant-garde luminaries such as Bob Ostertag and Charlemagne Palestine. He holds a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley and an MA in Electronic Music from Mills College.

INO is a visual artist from Greece who studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and is worldwide known for his large scale murals. His first experimental pieces emerged when he started creating graffiti fonts and characters back in 2000. In recent years, INO has participated in various exhibitions and art projects around the world. His work has been featured in numerous publications as well as in the New York Times.

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics, including texts on Jacques Derrida's Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic. He is also currently preparing a book on existential themes, to be published with Routledge, London in 2023. His first Chapbook of poems, entitled 'GHOST TOWN' was published by Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, US, in summer 2022.

Philip Ivanov is a multi-disciplinarian artist from Melbourne, Australia. The son of a Balkan refugee and a 4th generation Australian, he spent his teenage years in the 80s painting trains, walls, canvas, and then broadened his practice to include music. He has been a working DJ and music producer for over 30 years.

Nicholas Jackiw is a software designer from Boston interested in the coevolution of symbolic representations and the ideas we inscribe in, and ascribe to, them. His best-known work, The Geometer’s Sketchpad, is a construction environment endowing historically static geometric imagery with temporal forms of appearance and reasoning banished from mathematics since Zeno.

Frederik-Emil Friis Jakobsen (b. 1993), M.A. in philosophy from University of Copenhagen and The European Graduate School. Areas of research include aesthetics and values, particularly in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, and the themes of otherness, ontology, and phenomenology in the works of Emmanuel Levinas. Beyond academia, a major fan of Werner Herzog’s cinema and a passionate follower of professional road cycling.

Darren Jorgensen lectures in art history in the School of Design at the University of Western Australia. His most recent book is an edited catalogue on women artists from the Western Desert, Bush Women, published by the Fremantle Arts Centre in 2018. He mostly writes on Australian art and artists, with essays and reviews in Artlink, Art + Australia and other magazines, as well as in academic journals. He also teaches on Chinese art and contemporary art history more generally.

Soretti Kadir is an Oromo storyteller, facilitator and activist. She has authored two books of poetry, released multimedia work independently and collaboratively, her work featured across the country and on occasion, abroad. Soretti is concerned with matters of truth and justice, she strives to reflect this in her work.

Zdeňka Kalnická is Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Main research interests: contemporary philosophy, (especially pragmatism, hermeneutics, feminist philosophy), aesthetics, interpretation of arts. Author of the book: Water and Woman. Symbolic-aesthetic Archetype. Saarbrűcker, VDM Verlag Dr. Műller GmbH & Co. KG, 2010; Concept and Image. Intersections of Philosophy and Art. Ostrava, 2013; Interpretace (in Czech), Praha, 2019. Editor of the book: Water and Women in Past, Present and Future, Philadelphia, Xlibris Corporation, 2007.

Jack Keenan is an undergraduate in philosophy and French at the University of Melbourne. He is enamoured with cinema and psychoanalysis.

Marianna Keisalo, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and stand-up comedian. She has studied the semiotics of comedic performance among Yaqui ritual clowns in Mexico and stand-up comedians in Finland.

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is Director of the Common Core at the University of Hong Kong (https://commoncore.hku.hk/). A Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the UGC Outstanding Teaching Award (Teams), he has also taught in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. He initiated GLADE (Global Liberal Arts Design Experiments) and is co-creating, with students, Critical Zones: Gender, Cities, and Well-Being and The Passion Project: Creating Work You Love. The author of Urban Arabesques, he is currently working on Noir: ReOrienting Thought, Art, and Ecology.

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. He is the author of Roman Comedy (1983); Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (1994); Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995); Friendship in the Classical World (1997); Pity Transformed (2001); The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006); Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010); Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (2014); and In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Robert Kraut is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University and a professional jazz guitarist. His primary interests are metaphysics, philosophy of language and aesthetic theory. He has held visiting positions at Pittsburgh, Rutgers, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Having lived in the music world for many decades, his perspectives on music aesthetics are strongly grounded in actual artistic practice. His Artworld Metaphysics (Oxford University Press: 2007) explores issues in artworld interpretation, evaluation and description from a pragmatist perspective.

Alexander Kremer is a habilitated associate professor of philosophy at the University of Szeged, Hungary. His professional field of interest includes hermeneutics, ethics, aesthetics, and pragmatism, especially neopragmatism. He is the author of four books (Chapters from the History of Western Philosophy from Thales to Hume (1997); Why Did Heidegger Become Heidegger? (2001); Basic Ethics (2004), Philosophy of the Late Richard Rorty (2016)) and has published numerous articles on philosophical hermeneutics, Richard Rorty’s neopragmatism, and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics. He is the editor in chief of Pragmatism Today.

Matthew Kruger is Assistant Professor of the Practice in Theology at BC. He is the author of three books, Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian (Cascade, 2018), The Gospel and Nothingness (Chisokudo, 2019), and What the Living Know: A Novel of Suicide and Philosophy (NFB, 2020). His research is focused on two main areas: spirituality and spiritual exercises; and nihilism and nothingness in Japanese philosophy, Continental philosophy, and Christian sources.

Amy Laidley is a medical illustrator working in Boston, MA. She holds a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology, and lives with her husband in West Roxbury, MA.

Thomas Leddy is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Jose State University. He is a specialist in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics having published several articles in the field. His book The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life was published by Broadview Press in 2012.

Keith Lehrer was born in 1936, and I have been a professor of philosophy for 60 years, teaching primarily at Arizona, but also at other universities and colleges, notably, University of Graz, Austria where I am an Honorary Professor. My philosophical interests are knowledge, truth, freedom, art, and representation. I am the author of several books published by Oxford, including “Art, Self and Knowledge”. I have had one man art shows in Florida, Arizona, California, and Austria. I am a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. My art website is – keithlehrer.com

Lior Levy is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Haifa, specializing in phenomenology, existentialism, and feminism. Her work on imagination was published recently in The British Journal of Aesthetics and Ibsen Studies. She is currently writing a book on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy of theatre.

Jacob Lund is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture and Director of the Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics (since 2007) and editor, with Geoff Cox, of the book series The Contemporary Condition with Sternberg Press (since 2016). Lund has published widely within aesthetics, art studies, critical theory, and comparative literature on topics such as image-politics, subjectivity, memory, mediality, enunciation, and contemporaneity. His most recent book is The Changing Constitution of the Present: Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity (Sternberg, 2022). Currently he is engaged in the research project, Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions, running 2022-2026 and made possible by an Investigator Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Inger Wold Lund (Bergen, 1983) is a writer and artist living in Berlin. Lund is the writer of three books in her native Norwegian published by Cappelen Damm and Flamme Forlag. A collection of her stories has been published in English by Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent exhibitions include The Busan Biannual; Kunsthal Aarhus; Atonal and The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biannual.

Anita Lunić is a teaching assistant at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia. She holds a MA degree in Philosophy and a MA degree in History. She is a Ph.D. student at the postgraduate doctorate studies in humanities.

Juraj Malíček, PhD. (1974) is an aesthetician and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia). His research interests include primarily theories of popular culture, history of film and its interpretation. He has written dozens of papers covering the topic of popular culture from different angles and is author, inter alia, of the monograph The Pleasure of Appearance and Knowledge – Pop Culture as experience.

Eva Kit Wah Man is currently Chair Professor of Humanities at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, comparative philosophy, woman studies, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art and cultural criticism. She was a Fulbright scholar and conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She was named AMUW Endowed Woman Chair Professor of the 100th Anniversary of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA in 2009. She is Kiriyama Professor of The Center for Asia and Pacific Studies at University of San Francisco in 2023. She contributes public services to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, M+ of Western Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong Museums Advisory Committee and Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Arts and Cultural Heritage projects.

Katya Mandoki, born in 1947 in Mexico. Has published eight books on everyday aesthetics and evolutionary aesthetics in Spanish and English, the most recent The indispensable excess of the aesthetic . She studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visual Arts and Art History at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. She presented various artworks on individual and collective art exhibitions and is presently professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico.

Gemma Argüello Manresa is a researcher, professor and independent curator. She is researcher for the National Research System in Mexico and teaches at the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in which she was recently Secretary of Academic Affairs. She is Chair of the Feminist Caucus and Social Media Editor for the American Society for Aesthetics. Her research focuses on Aesthetics and Politics, Feminist Philosophy, Processual and Participatory Art, and Social-engaged practices in Latin America. Her work has been published in Mexico, the United States, England, Holland, France, Italy and Spain. She has worked as an independent curator for many contemporary art museums and exhibition venues in Mexico.

Rob Marks writes about aesthetic experience, its relationship to how our bodies encounter and reveal the world, and its capacity to unite body and mind as one to interpret perception and grasp “truth.” BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, Journalism, University of California, Berkeley; MA, Visual and Critical Studies, California College of Arts.

Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna. His main research fields are hermeneutics, critical theory, somaesthetics, philosophy of music. He is the author of the books Verità e non-verità del popular (2021), La filosofia dei Radiohead (2021), Le verità del non-vero (2019), Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language (2015), La filosofia di Frank Zappa (2014), Gadamer and the Limits of the Modern Techno-Scientific Civilization (2011). He has co-edited the collections Pearl Jam and Philosophy (2021), The “Aging” of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (2021), Kant’s “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” in the 20th Century (2020), Adorno and Popular Music (2019), Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion (2017).

Julia McClure is a global historian of the Spanish Empire, specialising in poverty, charity, and inequality. She has published broadly on the history of poverty, rights, and institutions. Her first monograph, The Franciscan Invention of the New World (Palgrave, 2016) explored the role of missionaries in the early Atlantic world. Her current book project, Empire of Poverty: the moral economy of the Spanish Empire, explores the role of the ideology of poverty in empire formation. McClure is a lecturer in late medieval and early modern global history at the University of Glasgow. Before this, she taught at the University of Warwick, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the European University Institute and at Harvard. She is the founder of the poverty research network and co-founder of the food sovereignty network.

Graham McFee is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Brighton (UK), and works in the Philosophy Department, California State University Fullerton. His major interests include the philosophy of Wittgenstein and philosophical aesthetics (especially of dance); his principal publications include How To Do Philosophy: A Wittgensteinian Reading of Wittgenstein (Cambridge Scholars, 2015); The Philosophical Aesthetics of Dance (Dance Books, 2011); Philosophy and the ‘Dazzling Ideal’ of Science (Palgrave, 2019).

Trish McTighe is Lecturer in Drama at Queen’s University Belfast. Her book, The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama, was published with Palgrave in 2013, and she has contributed to the journals Modern Drama, Contemporary Theatre Review, and the Irish University Review. She is theatre reviews editor for the Journal of Beckett Studies.

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature; and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. Co-authored with Catherine E. Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, co-, 2018; The Politics of Decolonial Investigations, Duke Press, 2021).

Jacqueline Viola Moulton is an artist and writer living and working in Seattle, WA. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy and Aesthetics.

Nkiru Nzegwu (born March 22, 1954) is a Nigerian philosopher, painter, author, curator and art historian. She is Distinguished Professor for Research at State University of New York at Binghamton. Among Dr. Nzegwu’s areas of expertise are African aesthetics, philosophy, African feminist issues, multicultural studies in art, and digital publishing.

Marrigje Paijmans, PhD, is assistant professor in Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Her research aims to recover marginalised voices in literary texts, thus balancing our understanding of the past. Her current project ‘Literary Unsettlements’ analyses marginalized criticism of colonialism and slavery in early modern literature. She has published on Spinoza, Foucault, and affective aesthetics.

Anu Mary Peter is an Assistant Professor of English, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. She was a Jawaharlal Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. Her research interests include graphic medicine, and health humanities. Her latest co-authored book is Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine (New York/London, Routledge 2020). Her research articles have appeared in various Web of Science/Scopus indexed journals including Health, Journal of Medical Humanities among others.

Jesse J. Prinz is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Prinz works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and ethics and has authored several books (like The Emotional Construction of Morals and The Conscious Brain, with OUP) and over 100 articles, addressing such topics as emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness.

Lars Straeher-Pohl graduated in Philosophy, Psychology and History at Freie Universität Berlin. Simultaneously he was educated in orchestral conducting. Publications focus on aesthetics of music, philosophy of mind and the hermeneutics of psychology. Straehler-Pohl is conductor of various orchestras. Centrepiece of his interdisciplinary artistic work is the question of presence.

Christine Carmela R. Ramos, author of Introduction to the Philosophy of the human person, Globalization and Technology and Introduction to Philosophy, obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Manila graduating with distinction (magna cum laude). She also completed her Masteral Degree in Philosophy and AB-BSE at De La Salle University. A former professor of The Philippine Women’s University and the Philosophy Department of De La Salle University, Dr. Ramos is currently teaching at Mapúa University. She received a scholarship from the Women's Council of Great Britain, studying in Hertfordshire College, England where she found the inspiration to write her book on globalisation. She was also cited for her significant contributions in the fields of humanities and community development. She was a member of the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society (PNPRS), Philosophical Association of the Philippines (PAP), Asian Association of Christian Philosophers, and National Organisation of Professional Teachers (NOPT). Born in the sign of Cancer, her other interests include learning to speak foreign languages, travelling, visiting museums, historical places, and singing. Her family and friends consider her a dedicated, intelligent and trustworthy person.

Paul Reynolds is co-convenor of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics. His research is within thinking about sex and sexuality ethico-politically, with recent work around sexual consent, sexual literacy and the blurred lines of transgression and legitimacy in conceiving sexual representations and practices. E-mail: sexethicspolitics@gmail.com

ROAR (Russian Oppositional Arts Review) introduces its readers to the artefacts of the contemporary Russian-language culture – from poetry to music scores, from articles to fiction, from web design objects to art reproductions, graffiti, and short videos – opposing the loyalist and servile official culture, which merges with the blatant propaganda serving the current political regime in Russia. Even now, we’re looking forward to the moment when ROAR is closed forever, that is, the moment when there is no more need to label a certain segment of the Russianlanguage culture as opposing the criminal Russian regime, solely by reason of the fact that this regime ceases to be. https://roar-review.com/

Jon Roffe is a Melbourne-based philosopher and writer. He teaches at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. His interests are clustered around the intersection between philosophy and economics, thinking and living, and desire and despair. Most recently, he has published The Works of Gilles Deleuze volume 1 (re-press 2020) and the collection of aphorisms Seduce or Die (surpllus, 2019).

James Rocha is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. James is the author of many works of popular culture and philosophy, with chapters in Mr. Robot and Philosophy, Veronica Mars and Philosophy, and Psych and Philosophy, among others. Additionally, James is the author of The Ethics of Hooking Up (Routledge 2020) and co-author of Joss Whedon, Anarchist? (McFarland 2019).

Mona Rocha is an Instructor for the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fresno. Mona is the author of many works of popular culture, with chapters in books such as Psych and Philosophy, Westworld and Philosophy, among others. She is also the author of The Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground (McFarland 2020) and co-author of Joss Whedon, Anarchist? (McFarland 2019).

Max Ryynänen is tenured as Senior Lecturer in Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University Finland. He is the former chair of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics and Editor-in-Chief of Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture and The Journal of Somaesthetics. His latest book On The Philosophy of Central European Art: The History of an Institution and its Global Competitors (Lexington Books, 2020) rewrote the story of the concept and institution of art from an intersectional and intercultural point of view, focusing also on the cultural systems that the art system globally overshadowed. March 2022 he is publishing Bodily Engagements with Film, Images and Technology: Somavision through Routledge. He is also the editor of e.g. Aesthetics in Dialogue (with Zoltan Somhegyi, Peter Lang 2020) and Art, Excess, Education (ed. with Kevin Tavin and Mira Kallio-Tavin, Palgrave 2019).

Yuriko Saito is a Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. She has lectured widely on these subjects, both within the United States and globally, and her writings have been published as book chapters, journal articles, and encyclopedia entries. Her Everyday Aesthetics (2007) and Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making (2017) were published by Oxford University Press. The latter was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Monograph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics.

Ken-ichi Sasaki is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, and formerly President of the International Association for Aesthetics, Japanese Society for Aesthetics, and Vice-President of the FISP (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Philosophiques). The main fields of his research are the general theory and the modern history of aesthetics, and Japanese culture. His publications include: 日本的感性（Japanese sensibility, 2010）, タイトルの魔力（magical power of title, 2001), Aesthetics on Non-Western Principles (1998), 美学辞典（dictionary of aesthetics, 1995）, ディドロ『絵画論』の研究（Study on Diderot’s Treatise on Painting, 2013）and many papers in Japanese, English and French.

Lycinus Secundus is a possible forgotten later ancient satirist, possibly of the school of Lucian of Samosata.

Yrjö Sepänmaa (1945) is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Aesthetics at the University of Eastern Finland. His main research theme is environmental aesthetics, but he also has dealt with the concept of beauty, aesthetic culture, margins of art, outsider art, and philosophy of literature. He has written and edited books and scholarly essays in these topics, e.g. a monograph titled The Beauty of Environment – a general model for environmental aesthetics (1986; second ed. 1993; transl. in Korean 2000, and in Chinese 2006). His present research deals with the future of environmental aesthetics and environmental aesthetic civility. Mr. Sepänmaa organized an international conference series on environmental aesthetics (1994–2009): landscape, forest, bog, water, agricultural land, stone, sky/heaven. He was the President of the XIII International Congress of Aesthetics, Aesthetics in Practice (Lahti, Finland, 1995).

Sandra Shapshay is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College & the Graduate Center (CUNY). Her research areas are aesthetics and ethics in the 19th c, with focus on Schopenhauer and Kant, and contemporary environmental aesthetics. Outside of working on a book tentatively titled “Bodies in Stone and Steel: An Aesthetics of Monuments and Memorials,” she likes to immerse herself in art or nature, preferably with a human or canine companion.

Nathalie Sinclair is the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning at Simon Fraser University. She studies the aesthetics nature of mathematics experience. She co-authored Mathematics and the Body: MaterialEntanglements in the Classroom, and co-edited Mathematics and the Aesthetic: New Approaches to an Ancient Affinity.

Tom Spector is a Professor of Architecture at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D in Architecture from U. C. Berkeley and his professional architecture degree from Georgia Tech. In addition he is a life fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Tom has authored several books on architecture including The Ethical Architect, How Architects Write, and Architecture and the Public Good (forthcoming in 2021). He lectures and publishes widely on the subject of architectural ethics and he is the managing editor of the journal Architecture Philosophy. Tom lives in Oklahoma City with his husband Shawn.

Elisabetta Di Stefano (Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts) is Associate Professor at the University of Palermo (Italy), where she teaches Aesthetics. Her research focuses on three main fields: the theory of the arts in the Renaissance; the ornament theory; the Aesthetics of everyday life. Her main publications are: L’altro sapere. Bello, Arte, Immagine in Leon Battista Alberti [Different Knowledge. Beauty, Art, and Images in Leon Battista Alberti], (Palermo: Centro Internazionale Studi di Estetica, 2000); “The Aesthetic of Louis H. Sullivan: Between Ornament and Functionality”, in Joerg Gleiter (ed.), Ornament Today, (Bozen: University Press, 2012), 64-75; Iperestetica. Arte, natura, vita quotidiana e nuove tecnologie [Hyperaesthetics. Art, Nature, Everyday Life, and New Technologies], (Palermo: Centro Internazionale Studi di Estetica, 2012); Che cos’è l’estetica quotidiana [What is everyday Aesthetics], (Roma: Carocci, 2017); Designing Atmospheres. The Role of Aesthetics in the Requalification of Space, in Mario Bisson (ed.), Environmental Design. 2nd International Conference on Environmental Design, DE LETTERA WP, Milano, 2017, 15-21; Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine, in Richard Shusterman (ed.), Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics, Series: Studies in Somaesthetics, Leiden-Boston, BRILL, 2018, 162-179.

Daniel Stewart aka DX lives in Sydney, appreciates icecream and cigarettes, reads Nietzsche, and is an acolyte of the sun and the steel. DX plays music with Total Control, The UV Race, Straightjacket Nation, G2G and KX Aminals and is the writer, editor and publisher of Distort, a magazine about World War III.

Ebba Sund is a Sweden-based, full-time self-employed media creator with a passion for photography, videography and visual design. She has a strong belief in the power of communication through art and thrives when getting to express herself through her lens. While finishing her Bachelor of Science with Specialization in Creative Media, Ebba first got recognition doing photography work for Mieke Bal’s Don Quijote: Sad Countenances.

Shehnaz Suterwalla is a writer, critic, curator, and Senior Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. She is interested in the politics of the body which she explores through material and visual culture and literature.

Stefán Snævarr was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1953. He is professor of philosophy at the Norway Inland University, Lillehammer, Norway. His main professional interests are in the field of aesthetics in a broad sense of that expression. He has published eighteen books of various kinds in three languages (Icelandic, Norwegian, and English). Some of these books are volumes of imaginative literature, others are philosophical tomes. His last book in English was Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions. Their Interplay and Impact, published in 2010. He has also published articles in various languages. In 2010 he won the first prize in an essay competition, arranged by The International Association of Aesthetics (IAA) for the essay “Aesthetic Wisdom”.

Doris Sommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. She is founder of "Cultural Agents," an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving the civic mission of the Humanities. Her academic and outreach work promotes development through arts and humanities, specifically through “Pre-Texts” in the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Pre-Texts is an arts-based training program for teachers of literacy, critical thinking, and citizenship. Among her books are Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1991) about novels that helped to consolidate new republics; Proceed with Caution when Engaged by Minority Literature (1999) on a rhetoric of particularism; Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (2004) for our times of contested immigration; and The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities (2014). Sommer has enjoyed and is dedicated to developing good public school education. She has a B.A. from New Jersey's Douglass College for Women, and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Ruth Sonderegger is a Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. She completed her PhD in Philosophy (1998) at the Free University Berlin, and from 2001 to 2009 she taught at the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam. Since 2004 she has been a member of the editorial board of Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. Currently, she researches the history of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and its entanglements with the history of colonial capitalism as well as theories and practises of critique.

Born to European Jewish refugees in Havana, Cuba, Alan Tansman teaches courses at UC Berkeley on Japanese literature and culture and on comparative responses to atrocity (about which he is now writing a book). He is the author of The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (2009) and of theforthcoming Very Short Introduction: Japanese Literature. He has also written about Japanese film, popular music, women’s literature, and literary form, both modern and classical.

Anne Tarvainen, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher in music studies at Tampere University, Finland. She is an ethnomusicologist, currently conducting research on the embodied experiences of D/deaf, tone-deaf, and vocally disordered singers. She is developing a research field of vocal somaesthetics. Tarvainen is also a singer and developer of the Voicefulness® method.

Paul C. Taylor is the Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate training at Morehouse College and his graduate training at the Kennedy School of Government and at Rutgers University. His research focuses primarily on aesthetics, the philosophy of race, American philosophy, and Africana philosophy. His books include Race: A Philosophical Introduction and Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, which received the 2017 monograph prize from the American Society for Aesthetics.

Lisa Tomlinson is a researcher and author of the books entitled The African-Jamaican Aesthetic: Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders and Una Marson Biography. Her areas of specialization include literary and cultural studies of the Caribbean and African diaspora. Lisa is currently a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in the Institute of Caribbean Studies where she teaches courses on Caribbean and African diaspora film, Caribbean cultural studies and reggae aesthetics.

Georgios Tsagdis, PhD, is lecturer at Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Architectural Association. His work is transdisciplinary, drawing on 20th Century, Contemporary and Ancient Greek Philosophy. His writings engage with the constitution of space and time, with matter and nature, but also with the ethico-political categories of love, care and friendship and have been published in numerous book collections and international journals, including Parallax, Philosophy Today and Studia Phaenomenologica.

Mónica Uribe-Flores (b. Mexico City, 1968) is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Aside from book chapters and articles, she has published the books La interpretación estética como experiencia del arte; Addison. Los albores de la estética moderna; and Descartes.

Rolando Vázquez Melken is Associate Professor of Sociology and Diversity Fellow at University College Roosevelt and affiliated researcher at the Gender Studies Department and at the Research Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Utrecht. Since 2009, he coordinates the annual Middelburg Decolonial Summer School together with Walter Mignolo. He co-authored the report of the Diversity Commission of the University of Amsterdam in 2016 under the direction of Gloria Wekker. He founded the initiative CRIDE (Critical Decoloniality) for sharing of decolonial practices among academic and cultural institutions.

Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. His research concentrates on graphic medicine, global health humanities. He has authored over eighty-five publications and five books. His recent co-authored book is Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine (New York/London, Routledge 2020).

Bálint Veres is associate professor of aesthetics and head of PhD-in-practice program at Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest. Active in a number of subfields of aesthetics. Besides being an author of academic papers, and a book in Hungarian, Bálint has participated as curator both in art festivals and in inclusive design initiatives.

Wolfgang Welsch, born in 1946, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy (Jena University), living in Berlin. Visiting professorships included the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Stanford University and Emory University. In 1992, he received the Max Planck Research Award, in 2016 the Premio Internazionale d'Estetica. His fields of research are aesthetics, theory of evolution, epistemology, ontology, and philosophy of culture. Most recent publications are: Im Fluss – Leben in Bewegung (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2021), Glanzmomente der Philosophie: Von Heraklit bis Julia Kristeva (Munich: Beck, 2021), Umdenken: Miniaturen zu Hegel (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2022)

Joel White is a Reader in English literature and language at the University of AixMarseille. After having completed is PhD at King’s College London in French Philosophy, his current research is concentrated on the philosophical reception of thermodynamics. Besides his academic writing, he also works with artist Madison Bycroft both as a cinematographer and as a performer. He is currently translating Artaud’s Revolutionary Messages for Bloomsbury Academic.

Jean Wills has a BFA from NSCAD University (Canada) in painting, drawing and art history. Jean and her family live in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is committed to the continual study of painting and drawing, showing in group and solo exhibitions, and sometimes taking illustration commissions.

Mat Wilkinson is a Newcastle-born, country Victoria-based, aspiring novelist. I had a short career as an urban planner before moving to Germany to study an MA in English literature. There, I caught up on some classics and the latest in critical and cultural theory. After finishing my coursework and thesis, Hegemonic Masculinity in Renaissance Drama, I moved back to Australia to write short stories (‘Tanga Driver’ was published in Verandah Journal Volume 21) and chip away at my novel-in-progress, Much More Important Than That.

Krystyna Wilkoszewska is Professor at Jagiellonian University, Institute of Philosophy. A Polish theorist of aesthetics, her research occupies an importantposition, continuing the tradition of cultivating this discipline created by Roman Ingarden and his student Maria Gołaszewska.

Edward Winters studied painting at Slade School of Fine Art and wrote his PhD in Philosophy at UCL. He writes on visual arts and is writing a book on architecture. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He taught at the universities of Westminster and Kent.

Ryan Wittingslow is an assistant professor of philosophy of art and culture at the University of Groningen, and received his PhD in art history and philosophy from the University of Sydney. Most of his research sits at the intersection of aesthetics, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of design.

Courtney Lee Weida has worked as an artist and educator in schools, museums, galleries, studios, and community centres in urban settings. She is also mother to a six-year-old artist, and works as an associate professor of Art Education at Adelphi University in New York.

Gareth White teaches at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His research focuses on questions of participation and aesthetics, in publications including Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation, and Applied Theatre: Aesthetics. He is also a theatre director specialising in participatory performance.

Sarah Woodland is a researcher, practitioner, and educator in applied theatre and participatory arts. She has over 25 years’ experience in the arts and cultural sectors in Australia and the UK, with a particular focus on engaging communities and groups from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, and those with experience of the criminal justice system. She is currently Dean’s Research Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.

Michel-Antoine Xhignesse is an instructor at Capilano University. His research focuses primarily on art’s status as a social kind, the explanatory role that intuitions play in grounding judgements about the ontology of art and social kinds, the constraining power of authorial intent, and the problem of truth in fiction.

Susanne C. Ylönen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research deals with the aesthetics of horror and disgust in the context of popular culture and especially childhood.

Alison Young is the Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Street Art World (2016), Street Art, Public City (2014), The Scene of Violence (2010) and numerous articles on the intersection of law, crime and culture. She is currently researching crime scenes and public memorials.

Farida Youssef is a curator at NADIM Foundation researching art and architectural history. Previously, she was a fellow at the British Museum working on the relevance of object-oriented ontology to archeology. Her MA thesis, obtained with distinction from UCL, dealt with spatial theory’s role in 20th century French philosophy.

Eddy M. Zemach was born 1935, in Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel). He published ten books in English and Hebrew on aesthetics and literature. Zemach studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University. He was lecturer at the former and is now retired Professor Emeritus. Zemach has been considered one of the most brilliant Hebrew philosophical minds and salient analytical thinkers.