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Pop Culture
Edited by Frédéric Lefrançois (Université Des Antilles, CNRS)
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| Summary | Pop culture refers to the collective ideas, beliefs, trends, images, and phenomena that are prevalent in mainstream society at a given time. Aesthetics, on the other hand, pertains to the study of beauty, visual or sensory experiences, and the principles that govern the creation and appreciation of art and design. In essence, pop culture and aesthetics are deeply interconnected, with pop culture serving as a reflection of societal values, aspirations, and interests, and aesthetics providing the visual and sensory language through which these cultural expressions are communicated. The interplay between the two shapes how we perceive, appreciate, and engage with the world around us. |
| Key works | Zahrádka 2016, Fabelo Corzo 2014, Dorzweiler 2017, Majithia 2011, Zaaiman 2012, Ribeiro 2008, Hollows 2000, Lopes 2000, Berleant 1994, Raymond 1990, Lefrançois & Lérus 2023 |
| Introductions | Zahrádka 2016, Fabelo Corzo 2014, Dorzweiler 2017, Zaaiman 2012, Ribeiro 2008, |
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- Immortal Souls in the Grimdark Future.Walter Barta - manuscript
- A Taste-Watcher's Manifesto.Walter Barta - manuscriptBinge-watching is the mode of consumption of modern digital media platforms. However, taste-watching, a mode of media consumption that prioritizes breadth over depth and diversity over selectivity, may be proposed as a more revolutionary alternative. Whereas binge-watching tends to trap a viewer in a monomythic, self-oriented, culturally limited, system of control; taste-watching has the potential to open viewers to experimentation, empathy, cultural capital, and political resistance.
- The Legend of Zelda: Being in Time.Walter Barta - manuscriptRemove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - The "Country" in Country.Walter Barta - manuscript
- The Aesthetics of Mosh.Logan Canada-Johnson - manuscriptRemove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- What Does ‘New Wave’ Mean?Peter Groff - forthcoming - In Andrew Krivine (ed.), Reversing into the Future: New Wave Graphics. Pavilion Books.A philosophical examination of 'new wave' as a musical genre, focusing on its developmental history and relation to punk as well as its unique ethos and aesthetic. Forthcoming 2021.
- Diaectic of Pop.Robin James - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
- Music as Misdirection.Jason Leddington - forthcoming - In Jake Johnson (ed.), Viva Las Vegas: Music and Myth in America's City of Second Chances.Magic and Vegas have a lot in common. Both have a reputation for bad taste and cheap thrills, and they’ve both generally been ignored—or at best ridiculed—by the art-critical establishment. It’s fitting, then, that no city loves magic like Vegas loves magic. Today, more than one-third of its top-selling shows feature magic, and this means that no complete treatment of art and entertainment in Sin City can afford to ignore it. But what’s at risk here is more than theoretical completeness. (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Pornography and Melancholy.Hans Maes - forthcoming - Apa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy.Section 1 proposes a new philosophical account of melancholy. Section 2 examines the reasons why one might think that pornography and melancholy are incompatible. Section 3 discusses some successful examples of melancholic pornography and makes the case that feminist pornographers are particularly well-placed to produce such material.
- Arthur Danto’s Andy Warhol: the Embodiment of Theory in Art and the Pragmatic Turn.Stephen Snyder - forthcoming - Leitmotiv:135-151.Arthur Danto’s recent book, Andy Warhol, leads the reader through the story of the iconic American’s artistic life highlighted by a philosophical commentary, a commentary that merges Danto’s aesthetic theory with the artist himself. Inspired by Warhol’s Brillo Box installation, art that in Danto’s eyes was indiscernible from the everyday boxes it represented, Danto developed a theory that is able to differentiate art from non-art by employing the body of conceptual art theory manifest in what he termed the ‘artworld’. The (...)
- Appreciating Taylor’s Versions: An Aesthetic Love Story.Irene Martínez Marín - 2025 - In Brandon Polite (ed.), Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording: The Art of Taylor's Versions. Bloomsbury.Internal coherence is of great importance for how we think about appreciating objects of aesthetic worth. A disagreement between what we judge to be worthy and what we affectively favor can prevent us from properly grasping its value. However, it is also assumed in the aesthetic domain that our taste changes over time, jeopardising such coherence constraint. These changes can lead to a mismatch between new aesthetic judgments and old aesthetic preferences. This chapter explores a number of issues that emerge (...)$26.95 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording: The Art of Taylor's Versions.Brandon Polite (ed.) - 2025 - Bloomsbury.When Taylor Swift's record label was sold in 2019, the six studio albums she recorded for them came under the control of a person with whom she has had years of bad blood: Kanye West's former manager Scooter Braun. But rather than move on, Swift chose to take the unprecedented step of re-recording duplicate versions of those albums. With all of the profits made from selling, streaming, and licensing these “Taylor's Versions” going directly to Swift, she could deprive Braun of (...)
- The Witcher's Dilemmas.Walter Barta & Graham Lee - 2024 - In Kevin S. Decker & Matthew Brake (eds.), The Witcher and Philosophy: Toss a Coin to Your Philosopher. Wiley.
- In Praise of Joker.Walter Barta & Emily Vega - 2024 - In Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, George A. Dunn & Jason T. Eberl (eds.), Joker and Philosophy: Why So Serious? Wiley-Blackwell.
- Aesthetics and Video Games.Christopher Bartel - 2024 - London: Bloomsbury Academic.The aesthetics of video games has as much to do with the player as it has to do with the game itself. The aesthetic values that players find in video games depends on the kind of attitude that the player takes toward playing the game. There are three distinct attitudes that players take when they play video games. I call these the goal-seeking attitude, the narrative attitude, and the dollhouse attitude. Each of these attitudes has a distinctive impact on the (...)
- Joker and Philosophy: Why So Serious?Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, George A. Dunn & Jason T. Eberl (eds.) - 2024 - Wiley-Blackwell."Timed to publish in advance of the Joker sequel Joker: Folie a Deux, the volume will have at least two sections will be dedicated to chapters that take up questions raised by 2019's Joker and the Todd Phillips depiction in general. Chapters will also be sought on the many other iterations of the Joker. A number of high-profile philosophers have already written insightful pieces on Joker and the volume editors hope to solicit new essays from some of them. Joker is (...)
- Anti-Realist City Symphony vs. Virtual Realist Walking Tour: Everyday Human and Visual Privacy.Doga Col - 2024 - In Asena Temelli Coşgun & İhsan Eken (eds.), Medya, İletişim ve Toplum. İstanbul: Çizgi. pp. 217-243.The aim in this chapter is to explore the similarities and differences between the city symphony film genre of the 1920s and 1930s and the contemporary virtual city walking tours that are popular on YouTube these days, eventually discussing the change in representation of the individual in daily life over a century. The city symphony was born with modernism in the early 20th century initially to present an interpretation of the city with daily activities, human beings, their interaction with industrial (...)
- The Witcher and Philosophy: Toss a Coin to Your Philosopher.Kevin S. Decker & Matthew Brake (eds.) - 2024 - Wiley.Embark on a revealing philosophical journey through the universe of The Witcher “If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all,” growls the mutant “witcher,” Geralt of Rivia. Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books lay bare the adventures of monster hunters like Geralt, who seek to avoid humanity's conflicts and live only for the next kill and the coin that comes with it. But Geralt's destiny is complicated by his relationship with a powerful sorceress, Yennefer of (...)
- Depiction of Violence in the Early Films of Sogo Ishii.Jaime López Diez (ed.) - 2024 - Madrid: Editorial Fragua.
- Rillen und Falten. Oder: Die doppelte Authentifizierung in Chanels Beauté Boutique. Vinylschallplatten, Warenwelt und das Selbst in der Metamoderne.Gerrit Fröhlich, Holger Lund, Katharina Zindel & Oliver Zöllner - 2024 - In Amrei Bahr & Gerrit Fröhlich (eds.), 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing?': Formen und Funktionen medialer Artefakt-Authentifizierung. Bielefeld: Transcript. pp. 71-100.This book chapter analyzes the marketing of luxury consumer goods (in particular, cosmetics) in the context of questions pertaining to authenticity, simulation, and the self in meta-modernity. It is based on case studies from Germany and East Asia, where a luxury brand company had set up pop-up stores in the guise of convincing-looking record shops, cafés and club situations in which semi-fake vinyl discs (with glossy fantasy sleeves printed just for the occasion, and the vinyl grooves being either 'empty' or (...)
- An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema.David Grčki & Rafe McGregor - 2024 - Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. Edited by Rafe McGregor.Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide an understanding of actual crimes and social harms. Taking three social problems as its subjects – capitalist political economy, structural injustice, and racism – the book explores the ways in which David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2019), and Jordan Peele’s Us (2019) offer solutions by reconceiving justice in terms of personal and collective transformation, utopian (...)
- Capitalist and anti-capitalist placemaking through street art.Quill R. Kukla - 2024 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 82 (3):330-352.ABSTRACT Street art can function as a tool of placemaking. It shapes how we experience, move through, and attach meaning to space, as well as how space is territorialized and bounded. Street art can be a restructuring force that changes how a space is legible or interpretable to its users, how it is used, how it is experienced, and how it forms a territory with insiders and outsiders. But how street art does this along with what kinds of impact it (...)
- Aesthetic Normies and Aesthetic Communities.Ting Cho Lau - 2024 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (N/A):1-10.Although there has been significant work on aesthetic snobbery and its ethical implications, much less work has been done on the aesthetic normie (normie for short). The normie is someone who primarily engages with popular aesthetic items. I argue that the normie is motivated by a drive towards sociality to connect with others and to rely on them given limited resources and time. I argue that the normie who is motivated by this drive will limit their aesthetic range and depth. (...)
- Taylor Swift and the Ethics of Body Image.Gah-Kai Leung - 2024 - In Catherine M. Robb, Georgie Mills & William Irwin (eds.), Taylor Swift and Philosophy: Essays from the Tortured Philosophers Department. The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. pp. 28-35.This chapter discusses the ethics of body image in relation to Taylor Swift's apparent experience of disordered eating and body shaming. I first contextualize Swift's experience, as it is depicted in the Netflix documentary /Miss Americana/, before connecting it to Heather Widdows' account of the contemporary beauty ideal in her book /Perfect Me/. I go on to explore the role of celebrity and gossip in the morality of beauty norms, since the burdens of dominant beauty ideals may fall disproportionately on (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The Ontology and Aesthetics of Genre.Evan Malone - 2024 - Philosophy Compass 19 (1):e12958.Genres inform our appreciative practices. What it takes for a work to be a good work of comedy is different than what it takes for a work to be a good work of horror, and a failure to recognize this will lead to a failure to appreciate comedies or works of horror particularly well. Likewise, it is not uncommon to hear people say that a film or novel is a good work, but not a good work of x (where x (...)
- Post-Punk's Melancholy Melody.Candace Miranda & Walter Barta - 2024 - In Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Post-Punk and Philosophy: Rip it Up and Think Again. Carus Books.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Recipe for a Post-Punk Song.Candace Miranda & Walter Barta - 2024 - In Joshua Heter & Richard Greene (eds.), Post-Punk and Philosophy: Rip it Up and Think Again. Carus Books.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The aesthetics of drugs.C. Thi Nguyen - 2024 - In Rob Lovering (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.The aesthetics of tea, in some practices, seems to focus on appreciating the mental effects of tea — the altered states of mind. Wine aesthetics, on the other hand, seems to actively exclude any inebriative effects. Wine experts are supposed to spit, in order to avoid inebriation when they judge wine. Why? The answer, I suggest, lies deep in several key suppositions in the traditional model of aesthetic experience: that aesthetic experience needs to be accurate of its object, and that (...)
- Un paio di scarpe (Nike). Recensione de "I piedi del mondo. Come le scarpe Nike hanno rivoluzionato l'immaginario globale" di Tommaso Ariemma. [REVIEW]Simone Santamato - 2024 - Mimesis Scenari.In this paper, I review Ariemma's latest work "I piedi del mondo. Come le Nike hanno rivoluzionato l'immaginario globale", ed. Luiss University Press, 2024. In my review, I try using the book's content as an occasion for deepening further in the methodology of pop-philosophy: what do we mean when we assert we are doing pop-philosophy, and from which theoretical structure do we argue? Finally, i develop some ideas for a phenomenological contextualization of the pop-philosophy: if this discipline works with the (...)
- REALISM IN ART AND REALISM OF ART / РЕАЛИЗМ В ИСКУССТВЕ И РЕАЛИЗМ ИСКУССТВА.Pavel Simashenkov - 2024 - Актуальные Вопросы Культуры, Искусства, Образования 40 (№ 2):75-82.The article analyzes the aesthetic content of the concept of realism in stylistic, genre and ideological aspects. Guided by the comparative method and a comprehensive approach to the study of the problem, the author declares the a priori avant-garde nature of art and, as a result, the groundlessness of confrontation between realists and avant-gardists. The catharsis achieved by the realism of expressive means should be real. Thus, the author's vision of realism presupposes not so much the harmony of art with (...)
- Aesthetic Sins of Commission and Omission.Nils-Hennes Stear - 2024 - Analysis 84 (2):425-433.A critical notice of Erich Hatala Matthes' 'Drawing the Line'.
- The Witcher as Postmodern Fairytale.Emily Vega & Walter Barta - 2024 - In Kevin S. Decker & Matthew Brake (eds.), The Witcher and Philosophy: Toss a Coin to Your Philosopher. Wiley.
- Ciri’s Agency and Autonomy: Princess, Sorceress, and Witcher Girl.Emily Vega & Walter Barta - 2024 - In Kevin S. Decker & Matthew Brake (eds.), The Witcher and Philosophy: Toss a Coin to Your Philosopher. Wiley.
- The Heaviest Metal.Michel-Antoine Xhignesse - 2024 - Philosophia 52 (3):681-697.It has recently been argued that metal’s ‘heaviness’ is conceptually inarticulable. I argue, on the contrary, that ‘heaviness’ is a matter of inaccessibility—the ‘something more’ that makes metal ‘heavy’ is actually something less: less auditory processing fluency. Like profound literature, metal resists, but also invites and rewards, interpretation. I argue that understanding ‘heaviness’ in terms of auditory processing fluency allows us to make sense of a number of otherwise puzzling features of the music, and to articulate a unifying gestalt for (...)
- Macchine Empatiche? "Pluto" di Toshio Kawaguchi.Gianmaria Avellino - 2023 - Fata Morgana Web.
- An Interstellar Leap of Faith.Walter Barta & Graham Lee - 2023 - In Joshua Heter & Josef Thomas Simpson (eds.), Asimov's Foundation and Philosophy: Psychohistory and its Discontents. Carus Books.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)The Mystery of Math.Walter Barta & Graham Lee - 2023 - In Joshua Heter & Josef Thomas Simpson (eds.), Asimov's Foundation and Philosophy: Psychohistory and its Discontents. Carus Books.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Ethics and Video Games.Christopher Bartel - 2023 - In James Harold (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.Ethics in video gaming is broad topic that extends beyond the familiar instances of “moral panics”. This chapter will first divide ethical issues into internal and external moral questions. Roughly, this equates to a distinction between the ethics in games and the ethics of games. The ethical issues internal to video games arise due to both their status as fictions and their status as games. Many games afford players the opportunity to perform violent and vicious acts; however, these are of (...)
- (1 other version)Ethics and Video Games.Christopher Bartel - 2023 - In James Harold (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.Ethics in video gaming is broad topic that extends beyond the familiar instances of “moral panics”. This chapter will first divide ethical issues into internal and external moral questions. Roughly, this equates to a distinction between the ethics in games and the ethics of games. The ethical issues internal to video games arise due to both their status as fictions and their status as games. Many games afford players the opportunity to perform violent and vicious acts; however, these are of (...)
- "Belleza" de Hans-Georg Gadamer y "Belleza y burguesía" de Odo Marquard: Introducción, traducción y notas de Facundo Bey.Facundo Norberto Bey - 2023 - Boletín de Estética 65:73-93.Resumen: Este texto introduce la primera traducción al español de los textos Schönheit [Belleza] de Hans-Georg Gadamer (trabajo escrito en los años ’70 y que vio la luz en alemán póstumamente en 2007) y Schönheit und Bürgerlichkeit [Belleza y burguesía] de Odo Marquard, publicado también en 2007 como respuesta demorada al trabajo del filósofo de Marburgo. Gadamer explora el desarrollo histórico del concepto de belleza en los siglos XIX y XX, poniendo énfasis en que la belleza siguió y seguirá siendo (...)
- Anthony Bourdain and Philosophy.Scott Calef (ed.) - 2023 - Open Universe.Anthony Bourdain committed suicide in 2018 and is now more popular than ever. He is famous for being brave enough to eat things most Americans would not regard as food, including a whole cobra, raw seal's eyeballs, and unwashed warthog rectum. His book Kitchen Confidential (2000) was his first best-seller but not his last. Though best known as an authority on food and international travel, Bourdain also wrote popular crime novels and books on history and other topics. He was a (...)
- Metamodernity, American Transcendentalism and Transhumanism in Japanese Anime.Steven Foertsch - 2023 - In Kaz Hayashi & William Anderson (eds.), Anime, Philosophy and Religion. Wilmington (Delaware, USA): Vernon Press. pp. 73-98.Recent theorists of cultural studies have noticed the emergence of metamodernity as an ideal type, categorized by an oscillation between postmodern deconstructivism and modern idealism, into a form of transcendentalism. I argue in this chapter that this type of transcendentalism, informed by the historical American Transcendentalist Movement, is the emerging ideal called “Transhumanism.” I use a case study of five Japanese anime to demonstrate how transhumanist, metamodernist, and transcendental thinking often recur in key core plot points and narratives found within. (...)
- How to Know a City: The Epistemic Value of City Tours.Pilar Lopez-Cantero & Catherine Robb - 2023 - Philosophy of the City Journal 1 (1):31-41.When travelling to a new city, we acquire knowledge about its physical terrain, directions, historical facts and aesthetic features. Engaging in tourism practices, such as guided walking tours, provides experiences of a city that are necessarily mediated and partial. This has led scholars in tourism studies, and more recently in philosophy, to question the epistemological value of city tours, critiquingthem as passive, lacking in autonomous agency, and providing misrepresentative experiences of the city. In response, we argue that the mediated and (...)
- Immoral Artists.Erich Hatala Matthes - 2023 - In James Harold (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.This chapter offers an overview of issues posed by the problem of immoral artists, artists who in word or deed violate commonly held moral principles. I briefly consider the question of whether the immorality of an artist can render their work aesthetically worse (making connections to chapters in the Theory section of the handbook), and then turn to questions about what the audience should do and feel in response to knowledge of these moral failings. I discuss questions such as whether (...)(collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark 2 citations
- An Aesthetics of (Popular) Music Radio.Aaron Meskin - 2023 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (3):330-340.
- GOLEMA XIV prognoza rozwoju ludzkiej cywilizacji a typologia osobliwości technologicznych.Rachel Palm - 2023 - Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 13 (1):75–89.The GOLEM XIV’s forecast for the development of the human civilisation and a typology of technological singularities: In the paper, a conceptual analysis of technological singularity is conducted and results in the concept differentiated into convergent singularity, existential singularity, and forecasting singularity, based on selected works of Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, and Vernor Vinge respectively. A comparison is made between the variants and the forecast of GOLEM XIV (a quasi-alter ego and character by Stanisław Lem) for the possible development of (...)
- Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy. Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene. Chicago, IL: Open Universe, Carus Books, 2022. 346 pp. ISBN 978-1-63770-022-8. [REVIEW]Kristopher G. Phillips - 2023 - Popular Music 42 (3):335-337.A Review of Heter & Greene's Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy (Carus Books).Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The Changing Meaning of Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance.Max Ryynänen & Paco Barragán (eds.) - 2023 - Palgrave / MacMillan (Springer Verlag).This book inaugurates a new phase in kitsch studies. Kitsch, an aesthetic slur of the 19th and the 20th century, is increasingly considered a positive term and at the heart of today’s society. Eleven distinguished authors from philosophy, cultural studies and the arts discuss a wide range of topics including beauty, fashion, kitsch in the context of mourning, bio-art, visual arts, architecture and political kitsch. In addition, the editors provide a concise theoretical introduction to the volume and the subject. The (...)
- Imagining in Oppressive Contexts, or What’s Wrong with Blackface?Robin Zheng & Nils-Hennes Stear - 2023 - Ethics 133 (3):381-414.What is objectionable about “blacking up” or other comparable acts of imagining involving unethical attitudes? Can such imaginings be wrong, even if there are no harmful consequences and imaginers are not meant to apply these attitudes beyond the fiction? In this article, we argue that blackface—and imagining in general—can be ethically flawed in virtue of being oppressive, in virtue of either its content or what imaginers do with it, where both depend on how the imagined attitudes interact with the imagining’s (...)
- Teogonia technologiczna. Nominalistyczna koncepcja bóstwa dla transhumanizmu i posthumanizmu.Rachel 'Preppikoma' Palm - 2022 - In Kamila Grabowska-Derlatka, Jakub Gomułka & Rachel 'Preppikoma' Palm (eds.), PhilosophyPulp: Vol. 2. Kraków, Poland: Wydawnictwo Libron. pp. 129–143.
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