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How do we perceive catastrophe when it unfolds too slowly to feel urgent? How does art make visible the violence we are trained to ignore? This volume brings together philosophers, artists, and scholars across political philosophy, film studies, feminist theory, and performance studies to confront these questions head-on. From the sensory vulnerabilities of birth to colonial urban landscapes, from ecological collapse to armed conflict, the contributors reveal emergency as radically heterogeneous—unfolding at different tempos and demanding different modes of attention. It shows that rethinking crisis begins not with policy, but with perception.
Price: $145.00
Pages: 275
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004735958
Format: Hardcover
Enea Bianchi is a FAPESP postdoctoral researcher at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), working on aesthetics and indigenous thinking in the Brazilian context. He completed his PhD at the University of Galway (Ireland) in 2021, with a thesis on the aesthetics of Mario Perniola, published the following year by Bloomsbury. In 2022 he was elected Delegate-at-Large of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA), and in 2026 Assistant Secretary General. Since 2024 he has co-directed the book series Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics (De GruyterBrill). He has published primarily on contemporary aesthetics, philosophy of sport, and disaster studies, in journals including: British Journal of Aesthetics; Sport, Ethics and Philosophy; Journal of the Philosophy of Sport; Journal for Cultural Research; Theory, Culture & Society.
Zhuofei Wang (PD Dr. phil. habil.) is Associate Professor in Aesthetics and General Art Studies at the University of Kassel, Germany. She served as Assistant Secretary General of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA) from 2022 to 2026. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics (De GruyterBrill), and First Vice President of the German Society for Interdisciplinary Image Studies (GIB). She is the author of Atmosphären-Ästhetik: Die Verflochtenheit von Natur, Kunst und Kultur (2024) and has published extensively on intercultural philosophy, environmental aesthetics, phenomenology, atmosphere studies, and image theory.
Zhuofei Wang (PD Dr. phil. habil.) is Associate Professor in Aesthetics and General Art Studies at the University of Kassel, Germany. She served as Assistant Secretary General of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA) from 2022 to 2026. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics (De GruyterBrill), and First Vice President of the German Society for Interdisciplinary Image Studies (GIB). She is the author of Atmosphären-Ästhetik: Die Verflochtenheit von Natur, Kunst und Kultur (2024) and has published extensively on intercultural philosophy, environmental aesthetics, phenomenology, atmosphere studies, and image theory.