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Call for Publications Theme: Bodies and cultures Subtitle: How we become ourselves Publication: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico Date: Vol. XII, Issue II (2019) Deadline: 20.7.2019 __________________________________________________ For the second issue 2019 we welcome submissions on the topic “Bodies and cultures. How we become ourselves”. This issue aims to question the apparently naïve Voltairian argument that our noses are made to wear glasses. We shall discuss to what extent cognitive processes and bodily performances are engendered or rather expressed by cultural practices and material objects, and challenge the understanding of the implied notions of nature and culture as a polarity. We intend to address three major questions: 1) How does our living body relate to inorganic prostheses – from rocks to shoes – so as to involve them in our ordinary intellectual activity? 2) Can we establish a discontinuity between functional objects and cultural products, or should we instead think in evolutionary terms also within the realm of material agency, tracing a trajectory from tools to symbolic artefacts and devices, and mirroring human evolution itself? 3) Is the increasing attention paid by scholars trained in Western dualistic thought to the animacy of inorganic bodies leading us toward a “second-hand animism”, or are we facing an actual turning point in humanities? Key words: material agency, bodily agency, human cognition, symbolic practices, enhancement, affordances, prosthetics. We welcome contributions from scholars in aesthetics, phenomenology, cognitive sciences, philosophical anthropology, art history, and visual and performance studies. Deadline for submission: July 20 2019 Expected release: November 2019 Aisthesis is a peer-reviewed Open Access Journal whose focal aim is to promote interdisciplinary and transcultural research and debate in Aesthetics and the arts. The journal appears biannually, in spring and autumn, and welcomes insightful academic articles and timely book reviews. Each issue includes a thematic cluster and a miscellany; call for papers are regularly announced on the journal website. "Aisthesis" is indexed, among others, in The Philosopher's Index, SCOPUS, PhilPapers, Google Scholar, and WoS Clarivate. Advisory Editors: Chiara Cappelletto ([email protected]) Carmine Di Martino ([email protected]) Journal website: http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
