Call for Papers: Special issue on Aesthetics, ethics and relational being

2024-09-19

In continuation of The Nordic Society for Aesthetics' Annual Conference 2024, The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics invites submissions for a special issue around the theme Aesthetics, ethics, and relational being.

In a world faced with ever more pressing environmental crisis, political upheaval and the rise of AI questions regarding the future applications of our existing knowledge, methods and doings, are brought to the surface. What could be the role(s) of aesthetics in a changing world, where there is a pressing need for re-thinking values, value systems, and the relationship we have to the future of the planet we inhabit?

Within this context questions relating to aesthetics, ethics and other forms of knowledge making, the environment, concepts such as care and wellbeing, and everyday experience are encouraged.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Care as a concept within aesthetics
  • Environment, aesthetics and future
  • Aesthetics as relational sense-making
  • Aesthetics and crisis
  • The relation between aesthetics and ethics
  • The relation between and cognition
  • Aesthetics and situated knowledges
  • Aesthetics and emotions
  • Aesthetics and AI
  • Aesthetics, science and epistemology

The deadline for submissions is December 2nd 2024, and submissions should be sent to nsae2024@lhi.is 

The special issue is guest-edited by Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir, Jóhannes Dagsson, and Sólrún Una Þorláksdóttir.