Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the “low” into the “high”. The same cannot be said of contemporary art of the 21st century, where the term “Gaga Aesthetics” characterizes the condition of popular culture being extensively imbricated in high culture, and vice-versa. Taking Adorno and Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry" and Adorno's Aesthetic Theory as key touchstones, this book explores the dialectic of high and low that forms the foundation of Adornian aesthetics and the extent to which it still applied, and the extent to which it has radically shifted, thereby 'upending tradition'. In the tradition of philosophical aesthetics that Adorno began with Lukács, this explores the ever-urgent notion that high culture has become deeply enmeshed with popular culture. This is “Gaga Aesthetics”: aesthetics that no longer follows clear fields of activity, where “fine art” is but one area of critical activity.
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F. Visconti, R. Capozzi, M. Ferraris, “Architesture”. Attorno all’architettura
Letteraventidue (forthcoming 2021)

In un colloquio al tempo stesso agile ma profondo, spesso ironico e a tratti perfino esilarante, Maurizio Ferraris affronta i tanti temi che caratterizzano, nella nostra contemporaneità, il dibattito sul ruolo dell’architettura nella società. Il filosofo torinese afferma di non comprendere le ragioni del successo tra gli architetti dei filosofi – in primis  il citatissimo Heidegger di Costruire abitare pensare –, ma spiega la “complicità” tra filosofi e architetti attraverso un ragionamento sulla specificità dell’Architettura in quanto disciplina in bilico tra tecnologia e umanesimo.

Borse di Alti Studi sull'Età e la Cultura del Barocco intitolate a Rosaria Cigliano (IX bando - edizione 2021)
 DEADLINE APPROACHING  Submission deadline: 20 settembre 2021

Descrizione: La Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo dal 2013 emana un bando annuale per borse di Alti Studi sull’Età e la Cultura del Barocco, rivolto a giovani studiosi italiani e stranieri. In continuità con l’attività descritta e nell’ambito di un ampliato programma di sostegno alla ricerca dedicato alle Humanities, la Fondazione 1563 bandisce il concorso per l’anno 2021 (con svolgimento nell’anno 2022) che prevede l’assegnazione di quattro borse di Alti Studi sull’Età e la Cultura del Barocco, intitolate a Rosaria Cigliano - Nona edizione. Il Bando 2021 è pubblicato su www.fondazione1563.it.
Il tema del progetto Quale Barocco? sarà declinato in molteplici attività, tra cui le ormai consolidate Borse Alti Studi sull’Età e la Cultura del Barocco. I candidati alle Borse, edizione 2021, dovranno pertanto proporre percorsi di ricerca originali focalizzati sugli argomenti qui di seguito indicati:
- Vicende museologiche e museografiche di istituzioni museali europee e americane incentrate in particolare sull’esposizione e sulla valorizzazione delle opere del XVII e del XVIII secolo.
- Analisi di mostre temporanee relative alla cultura artistica del Barocco (con attenzione alla selezione delle opere, ai prestiti, alle modalità espositive).
- Studio delle dinamiche relative al collezionismo e al mercato dell’arte: fortuna delle opere e degli artisti,
orientamenti economici e commerciali, aspetti legali connessi alla circolazione delle opere.
- Assestamento della fortuna del Barocco attraverso la riflessione critica degli storici, degli storici dell’arte, degli storici dell’architettura nel corso del Novecento.
- Studio della cultura del restauro in relazione alle opere del XVII e XVIII secolo.
- Analisi delle figure di conservatori, curatori, collezionisti, intermediari, galleristi, antiquari che abbiano
svolto un ruolo significativo inerente ai temi del bando.
- Studio del configurarsi della ricezione visiva del Barocco attraverso la produzione artistica contemporanea, la cultura di arredo, il cinema e le arti visive, l’editoria.

Istruzioni: Le candidature possono essere presentate esclusivamente tramite application form sul sito web della Fondazione 1563. Non saranno ammesse altre forme di candidatura. Termine per la presentazione dei progetti: 31 agosto 2021 (h24, ora italiana) Gli uffici della Fondazione (tel. 011.4401405, 011.4401406, info@fondazione1563.it) sono a disposizione per fornire ulteriori informazioni o chiarimenti.
Scarica il bando completo
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Premio di Laurea “Maria Chindamo” per tesi di laurea magistrale su “Discriminazioni, violenza di genere e femminicidio, con particolare riferimento ai contesti di criminalità organizzata”
 DEADLINE APPROACHING  Submission deadline: 30 September 2021
 

Descrizione: Diffondiamo con piacere, su indicazione di Donata Chiricò, notizia del bando di concorso per l’attribuzione del Premio di Laurea “Maria Chindamo” per tesi di laurea magistrale su “Discriminazioni, violenza di genere e femminicidio, con particolare riferimento ai contesti di criminalità organizzata”, promosso dal Centro Interdipartimentale in Women’s Studies "Milly Villa" dell’Università della Calabria. Maria Chindamo, scomparsa da Limbadi nel maggio 2016, era imprenditrice agricola, commercialista e studentessa universitaria. Donna libera e determinata, Maria Chindamo è emblema di tante storie di donne calabresi che con competenza e determinazione hanno costruito percorsi di libertà e liberazione. La storia di Maria, entrata nei percorsi di approfondimento e studio del Centro, ha permesso di evidenziare come una lettura intersezionale possa far riflettere sui temi del lavoro, dell’emancipazione delle persone e dei territori, dei percorsi di autodeterminazione delle donne. Per questo, il Centro ha inteso sin da subito inserire la storia di Maria nei percorsi non solo conoscitivi ma anche di proposta politica per la trasformazione dei nostri contesti. 
 
Istruzioni: Sono ammessi/e a partecipare al concorso i/le laureati/e dei corsi di laurea magistrale a ciclo unico e di laurea magistrale in qualsiasi Ateneo italiano, residenti in Calabria, che abbiano conseguito il titolo negli A.A. 2018-2019,2019-2020, 2020-2021. La domanda di partecipazione al Premio di Laurea dovrà pervenire, unitamente alla documentazione prevista dal bando, entro il 30 settembre 2021 (ore 12:00). Il bando è pubblicato sul sito del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali dell'Università della Calabria e sul portale di Ateneo.

Description: Actually philosophical thought in Italy is now attracting increasing interest outside of Italian borders. Philosophy in Italy has had a significant influence on Western philosophy for centuries. But the Russian readers know Italian philosophy insufficiently and fragmentally. What makes Italian philosophical thought so special? What makes it so similar to our type of perception? The issue dedicated to Italian philosophy we hope will open a unique synthesis of contemporary philosophy and the greatest traditions of the Past. This point was proved by Italian thinkers in Aesthetics and Semiology studies where they have invented a shaped culture that unites analytical origins of contemporary methodology with humanitarian questions. The Italian soil is proving to be an extraordinarily fertile ground for new concepts and innovative engagements between philosophy and those disciplines with which it proves itself capable of communicating, from law to theology, from linguistics to anthropology, politics, and beyond.

Instructions: We welcome academic articles, scientific translations, critical reviews (on books or scientific events), philosophical interviews, written by young researchers (students; postgraduates and researcher).
Instructions: Papers are submitted by the e-mail: vita.cogitans@yandex.ru or in z.nikolaeva@spbu.ru; zh.v.nikolaeva@gmail.com. Languages for publication: English, Russian. Submissions are getting through double-blind peer review. All the articles of “Vita Cogitans” will be in the open access; will be indexed of the Russian Science Citation Index & visible under agreement with Clarivate Analytics on the Web of Science platform (in the form of a separate database of RSCI). The webpage of the journal "Vita Cogitans. Almanac of Young Philosophers" on the web site of  Herzen University (in Russian). Additional information & finally guidelines to authors will also be available after 1 september, 2021 via the website too.

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The Monist
Transgenerationality, community and justice
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2021
Guest editors: Tiziana Andina (University of Turin), Fausto Corvino (University of Turin)
 

The research on intergenerational justice has followed in the last decades three main directives: neo-contractualist models that aim to demonstrate that there can be mutual advantage in indirect cooperation or to find moral patches based on intra-familiar love; studies on the implications that utilitarianism, prioritarianism and sufficientarianism have with respect to future generations (e.g., the social discount rate, the repugnant conclusion, the hermit’s paradox, and so forth); analysis of how it is possible to conceive intergenerational harm in the face of the non-identity problem. There is, however, a third possible line of research, which, despite having received much less attention over the years, presents much less theoretical complications than the approaches set out above, and this is transgenerational communitarianism. Avner De Shalit outlined, more than twenty years ago, the concept of transgenerational community, that is, a community that despite the lack of face-to-face interactions between all its members (due to obvious temporal asymmetries) manages to ensure moral similarity between them through free and rational processes of collective reflection.

Although this idea is able to give normative foundation to intergenerational obligations without incurring the theoretical complications that meet the most known and discussed theories that are based on a strict methodological individualism, such as complications related to the identity of future people and population ethics, it has not been developed in the literature as due. At the same time, however, a consistent metaphysical research has gone ahead on the concepts of transgenerationality and of transgenerational actions, i.e., actions that can be realized only with the contribution of subjects other than those who initiated them – which is, in essence, the theoretical assumption of any transgenerational community.

Accordingly, the purpose of this special issue is to investigate the relationship between transgenerationality, on the one hand, and a community-based normative foundation of justice towards future generations, on the other. In particular, we are interested in addressing three theoretical issues:

– What are the metaphysical underpinnings of the concept of transgenerationality and under which circumstances one or more transgenerational actions can create duties of justice, positive or negative, towards future generations?

– What is a transgenerational community and what kind of obligations does it create among its members belonging to different generational cohorts? And what is the temporal extension of these obligations?

– What are the drawbacks of a communitarian approach to intergenerational justice? For example, can it give the right theoretical value to intergenerational problems, such as climate change, which have a clear cosmopolitan scope?

Invited authors

Avner de Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Luigi Bonatti (University of Trento, Italy) and Lorenza Alexandra Lorenzetti (Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy)

Janna Thompson (La Trobe University, Australia)

Jean Comaroff (Harvard University, USA) and John Comaroff (Harvard University, USA),

May Sim (College of the Holy Cross, MA, USA)

Ferdinando G. Menga (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy)
Submission Information: All submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and sent to:
tiziana.andina@unito.it <mailto:tiziana.andina@unito.it> and fausto.corvino@unito.it <mailto:fausto.corvino@unito.it>

Word limit: 8000 words, including notes and references.

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Rivista di Estetica (1/2023)
Unpacking the social world: groups and solidarity
Submission deadline: 8 January 2022

Advisory editors: Francesco Camboni (University of Eastern Piedmont), Raul Hakli (University of Helsinki), Valeria Martino (University of Genoa)
 

• The nature and identity of social groups;
• Is sociality a constitutive feature of groups of people?
• The nature of solidarity, and – if any – its opposite;
• The kind of psychological mechanisms involved in dynamics of solidarity;
• Is solidarity related to some distinctive group kind?
• Is solidarity a necessary or sufficient condition for group formation?

In order to submit your paper, please register and login to: http://labont.it/estetica/index.php/rivistadiestetica/login
Please notice: when asked “What kind of file is this”, please select the relevant CFP.

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Jolma
Greek and Contemporary Philosophies of Language Face to Face
Submission deadline: 28 February 2022

Guest editor: Begoña Ramón Cámara

Description: In the last hundred years, language has been at the centre of interest in philosophy, so much so that we have come to speak, with reference above all to the philosophy that developed between the 1920s and the end of the century, of a “linguistic turn”. Nor should it be forgotten that this interest in language, which certainly distinguished analytic philosophy, also involved much “continental” philosophy (it is enough to mention Heidegger, philosophical hermeneutics, or Derrida). The same decades also saw a great development of the investigation of the conception of language in ancient Greek, Roman and late ancient philosophy. The works on the theme of language in the sophists, Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic philosophies, Neo-Platonism, Augustine and the Patristic, etc., are increasingly numerous. In this panorama there are two points that deserve more attention than has been devoted to them so far. The first point concerns contemporary philosophy of language. With a few, albeit notable, exceptions, one feels the lack in contemporary philosophy of language of a systematic study of the previous history of philosophical reflection on language. This is true of the Modern Age (16th–18th centuries) and the Middle Ages; but it is perhaps more true of the Greek, Roman and Late Antiquity. Obviously, all this can be explained by the explicit theoretical orientation of contemporary philosophy of language, especially analytical philosophy; however, this does not exclude that a critical comparison with one’s own history could contribute to enriching and also making more perceptive the current philosophical research on language. The second point concerns research into ancient conceptions of language. Perhaps in order not to fall into anachronisms or an undue updating of ancient thought, many scholars have avoided using contemporary theoretical acquisitions on language in their approach to Greek, Roman or Late Antiquity conceptions. This is an entirely understandable caution. However, this does not exclude that, read in the light of the current philosophy of language, many ancient pages may reveal new aspects to us, and that the historical reconstruction may come out richer and more percipient. In this issue we would like to bring together (a) essays that, from the contemporary philosophy of language, want to reflect on the Greek past of language research, without renouncing the theoretical motivation of the research; (b) essays that, committed to the research on Greek conceptions of language, want to confront what has happened in the last century in the reflection on language. One of the aims of this issue is also to collect essays that investigate (c) the way in which some contemporary philosophers of language (Austin, Wittgenstein, Davidson, etc.) have confronted Greek thought; (d) the cases in which Greek texts on language have been read and interpreted in the light of this or that contemporary theory of language (for example, the Cratylus and contemporary theories of reference).
Invited Contributors: Juan José Acero, James C. Klagge, Marcello La Matina, Lidia Palumbo, Luigi Perissinotto, Francesca Piazza, Mauro Serra.

Istructions: Papers will be subject to double-blind peer review by at least two referees, following international standard practices. Articles must be written in English and should not exceed 6,500 words. Submissions must be suitable for blind review. Each submission should also include a brief abstract of no more than 650 words and five keywords for indexing purposes. The instructions for authors can be consulted in the journal’s website: ‘Editorial Guidelines’. Notification of intent to submit, including both a title and a brief summary of the content, will be greatly appreciated, as it will assist with the coordination and planning of the issue. Please submit your proposals to the email jolma_editor@unive.it or using the section ‘Contacts’ of the ‘Journal info’ page.
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For any question, please use the following address: begonia.ramon@gmail.com

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Rivista di Estetica
The Philosophy of Television Series
Submission deadline: 1 April 2022

Guest editors: Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London) and Enrico Terrone (Università di Genova)
 

• Is TV series a self-standing form of art or is it to be traced back to the cinema?
• What is the relationship between television series and films?
• What is the relationship between television series and other forms of television (e.g. talk shows, reality shows, news)?
• What sets the Golden Age of Television (Peak Television) apart from the preceding era?
• Is there a narrative specificity of television series?
• What is the effect of seriality/seasonality on television series?
• How are television series related to other serial narratives such as comics?
• How do television series deal with the system of film genres?
• The fiction/nonfiction divide in television series.
• The antihero and the antiheroine as outstanding characters in television series
• Philosophical themes in television series

Istructions: Articles must be written in English and should not exceed 30.000 characters. In order to submit your paper, please register and login to: http://labont.it/estetica/index.php/rivistadiestetica/login When asked “What kind of file is this?”, please select the relevant CFP.

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Journal of Transcendental Philosophy
Kant and the Role(s) of Doctrines of Method
Submission deadline: 1 April 2022

Guest editors: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University), Gabriele Gava (University of Turin)

Description: Each of Kant’s three Critiques includes a ‘doctrine of method’. There is a ‘Transcendental Doctrine of Method’ in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), a ‘Doctrine of Method of Pure Practical Reason’ in the Critique of Practical Reason (1788) and a ‘Doctrine of Method of the Teleological Power of Judgment’ in the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790). Additionally, there is an ‘Ethical Doctrine of Method’ in the Doctrine of Virtue, which is the second book of the Metaphysics of Morals (1797). These doctrines of method have been comparatively neglected by Kant scholars. In part this is no doubt because these chapters come at the end of very long and complicated books. In part, this is due to the false assumption that Kant only included these sections to adhere to a traditional architectonic division of philosophical works (see Kemp Smith 1918: 563).
Recently, however, there has been a wave of studies thatshow that Kant’s doctrines of method contain materials that were important to Kant and relevant to debates among Kant scholars as well as to some contemporary discussions. For example, consider the distinction between the methods of philosophy and of mathematics that Kant discusses in the ‘Discipline of Pure Reason’ chapter in the Doctrine of Method of the first Critique. The past thirty years has witnessed a series of important interpretations that appreciate the relevance of this distinction (see Wolff-Metternich 1995; De Jong 1995; Carson 1999; Shabel 2003; Sutherland 2004; Dunlop 2014), especially in relation to Kant’s philosophy of mathematics. Another group of scholars have highlighted the significance of the ‘Architectonic of Pure Reason’ chapter (also in the first Critique) to understanding Kant’s effort to generate a scientific metaphysics (see La Rocca 2003; Manchester 2003 and 2006; Sturm 2009; Gava 2014; Ferrarin 2015). More recently, the ‘Canon of Pure Reason’ chapter has attracted the most attention -- in particular the last section, wherein Kant develops a sophisticated account of different types of ‘taking-to-be-true’ (Fürwahrhalten). Among these are ‘opinion’ (Meinung), ‘belief’ (Glaube), ‘conviction’ (Überzeugung), persuasion (Überredung), and ‘knowledge’ (Wissen) (see Stevenson 2003; Chignell 2007a, 2007b, forthcoming 2022; Pasternack 2011 and 2014; Höwing 2016; Willaschek 2016; Gava 2019). Still other works have investigated what is peculiar to the ‘practical’ doctrines of method contained in Kant’s practical works (see Bacin 2002 and 2010). Despite this recent and growing interest in Kant’s doctrines of method, there is much about them that remains unclear. For one thing, in addition to ongoing debates and remaining questions regarding the issues that have already attracted scholarly attention, large sections of Kant’s doctrines of method are comparatively neglected. We welcome contributions that seek to refine our understanding of the familiar issues as well as those that explore new territory. Second, there are outstanding questions about what a doctrine of method is exactly, and what unifies the various doctrines of method found in Kant’s works. While the first and third Critiques connect their doctrines of method to the issue of whether a body of cognition can be considered a science, Kant explicitly denies that the ‘practical’ doctrines of method play this role (see 5:151). Therefore, one question that urgently needs discussion is just: what do ‘theoretical’ and ‘practical’ doctrines of method’ have in common that justifies their sharing a name? But even focus just on the ‘theoretical’ doctrines of method: how do their different components belong to a common project and contribute to showing that a body of cognition is a science (Wissenschaft)? We welcome contributions that seek to answer these unifying questions, as well as those that connect Kant’s doctrines of method to previous or subsequent methodological discussions (e.g. in the German rationalist, German idealist or pragmatist traditions).
We will organize and fund a workshop with the authors of the accepted papers at Princeton University in October 2022. The workshop will give authors the opportunity to receive additional feedback from other authors and various distinguished auditors before they submit final versions of their contributions. Participation in the workshop is mandatory for inclusion in the volume.

Instructions: Papers should be submitted by April 1st 2022, using the journal’s submission site. Upon submitting your manuscript, please specify in your cover letter that the manuscript is meant for this special issue, so that it can be assigned to the appropriate guest editors. Papers must be no longer than 10.000 words, including notes and references, and be prepared for blind review, removing all self-identifying references. The formatting of the submission is up to the author; accepted papers will be asked to adhere to journal style (see the journal’s website for further information: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/jtph/jtph- overview.xml). No more than one submission per author is accepted.

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