Passive Listening: Exploring Interpassivity In Ambient Music,
2025
SAE Auckland
Passive Listening: Exploring Interpassivity In Ambient Music, David Chechelashvili, Alan Brown
Staff Scholarship - New Zealand
The landscape of ambient music presents unique challenges for critique and classification due to its wide range of subgenres, functions and goals. Often defined by its atmospheric and immersive qualities, ambient music is traditionally seen as providing a backdrop for relaxation or as a means to block out the harsh reality of the outside world. This dominant theory, while valuable in certain contexts, tends to oversimplify the multifaceted nature of ambient music and ignores the potential for more nuanced listening experiences. The proposed alternative theory of interpassivity challenges existing understandings of ambient music production and consumption modes. Drawing on psychoanalytic …
In Defense Of Racebending,
2025
Marist University
In Defense Of Racebending, Cathleen Muller
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In an effort to diversify fictions, many creators use racebending, changing the race of a character from an original fictional work or person from history and incorporating the altered character into a new fictional work. While racebending has been used across many forms of popular media, from comics to musicals, there has been little philosophical attention devoted to it. In what follows, I attempt to fill that gap by discussing the aesthetic value of racebending, its moral value, and how it can be understood on several prominent metaphysical views.
Cephalopod Consciousness On “Their Own Terms”: Who Are “They”?,
2025
University of Cambridge
Cephalopod Consciousness On “Their Own Terms”: Who Are “They”?, Willa M. Lane, Victor Ajuwon, Nicola S. Clayton
Animal Sentience
Mather’s call to consider cephalopods’ consciousness “on their own terms” raises the question of the extent to which cephalopods can be considered a homogenous group. While coloeoid cephalopods share traits that strongly distinguish them from other molluscs and invertebrates, they show vast ecological and morphological diversity, with implications for the design of empirical investigations of consciousness. Extending Mather’s argument, we apply Birch et al.’s (2020) five-dimensional model to compare octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. This comparison shows that even within a graded rather than categorical framework, putative consciousness profiles depend on which taxa are included in discussions of “cephalopod consciousness.” …
The Symposium On Arnold Berleant's Works,
2025
Rhode Island School of Design
The Symposium On Arnold Berleant's Works, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This symposium publishes all the contributions presented at the XVIth Summer Conference of the international Institute of Applied Aesthetics held in Lahti, Finland, June 2025. We thank the contributors for preparing their presentation for publication.
Arnold Berleant And The International Institute Of Applied Aesthetics: Introduction To The Panel Discussion,
2025
University of Helsinki
Arnold Berleant And The International Institute Of Applied Aesthetics: Introduction To The Panel Discussion, Arto Haapala
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Berleant’S Critique Of Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited, Again,
2025
University of Helsinki
Berleant’S Critique Of Aesthetic Disinterestedness Revisited, Again, Harri Mäcklin
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Descriptive Aesthetics,
2025
Aalto Univeristy, Finland; University of Helsinki; University of Jyväskylä; Univeristy of Eastern Finland
Descriptive Aesthetics, Max Ryynänen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Arnold Berleant’S Engagement With The Aesthetics Of Engagement,
2025
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Arnold Berleant’S Engagement With The Aesthetics Of Engagement, Fotini Vassiliou, Katerina Bantinaki
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Aesthetic Engagement, Descriptive Aesthetics, And The Reformation Of Aesthetics: Responses To Mäcklin, Ryynänen, And Vassiliou,
2025
Univeristy of Long Island
Aesthetic Engagement, Descriptive Aesthetics, And The Reformation Of Aesthetics: Responses To Mäcklin, Ryynänen, And Vassiliou, Arnold Berleant
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Bibliography,
2025
Denison University
On The Indispensability Of Natural Law On The Moral Theory Of The State,
2025
Liberty University, Helms School of Government
On The Indispensability Of Natural Law On The Moral Theory Of The State, David W. Bolton
Liberty University Journal of Statesmanship & Public Policy
Natural Law is widely regarded as a set of universal moral standards in which the acknowledgement of the differences between right and wrong are inherent in people, not created by society or lawmakers. It is based on the consistent nature of man as opposed to varying cultural standards and is unchanged by time or circumstance. Many thinkers throughout history have offered their educated opinions on the matter of Natural Law and the moral theory of the State. The Social Contract theory of the Modern Secular thinkers of the 17th century was considered a break with classical and traditional Christian …
Edgar Wright’S The World’S End: What Really Matters?,
2025
Belmont University
Edgar Wright’S The World’S End: What Really Matters?, Sophie Guthrie
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Unearthing The Undead Prejudice: How ‘Feminist Science’ Creates A More Empirically Accurate Scientific Framework By Revealing The Inherent Bias In All Investigate Methodologies,
2025
Durham University
Unearthing The Undead Prejudice: How ‘Feminist Science’ Creates A More Empirically Accurate Scientific Framework By Revealing The Inherent Bias In All Investigate Methodologies, Horatio Holloway
Episteme
No abstract provided.
The Structuralist Semiotics Of Hidden Places,
2025
Rice University
The Structuralist Semiotics Of Hidden Places, Alexander Shin
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Superintelligence And The Burden Of Intelligence: A Zapffean Critique Of Ai,
2025
University of Toronto
Superintelligence And The Burden Of Intelligence: A Zapffean Critique Of Ai, James (Xiaolong) Wang
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Protecting Particularity: An Ecumenical Theory Of Gender,
2025
Sarah Lawrence College
Protecting Particularity: An Ecumenical Theory Of Gender, Taika Sorensen
Episteme
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note,
2025
Denison University
Front Matter,
2025
Denison University
Episteme Vol. 36,
2025
Denison University
Pedagogical Escapism And Western Performativity: A Psycho-Aesthetic Critique Of Belly-Dance Adaption Symbolics,
2025
University of Liverpool
Pedagogical Escapism And Western Performativity: A Psycho-Aesthetic Critique Of Belly-Dance Adaption Symbolics, Maryam Farahani
Comparative Woman
This paper addresses positionality misreading in Western pedagogical adaptions of belly dancing. Raqs Sharqi, known in the West as belly dancing, is a predominantly West Asian and North African discipline and performance art with multimodal varieties, globally taught and practiced while crossing sport, narratology, and story-telling boundaries. As a unique performance activity, it portrays a dynamic entertainment space to connect one’s multiple identities. I argue that Raqs Sharqi, not only as an aesthetic-educational art form but also, perhaps unwittingly, reiterated as an Orientalist communication trope in belly dancing, has forged East-West performativity models. However, the historical education-literature for Western women …
