Socioaesthetics ― Ambience ?Imaginary

The volume SocioAesthetics: Ambience – Imaginary collects scholars from social science, aesthetics, arts, and cultural studies in case-driven debate, ranging from biometrics to luxury commodities, on how a new alignment of aesthetics and the social is possible and what the possible prospects of this may be.

Anders Michelsen, Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen; Adjunct Professor, School of Creative Arts, James Cook University. On the board of Sage journal Thesis Eleven and Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. Author of more than eighty papers. Forthcoming book on Transvisuality at Brill. Most recently, co-editor and contributor to the three volume collection,Transvisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality, (Liverpool Press 2013-). Co-founder of initiatives for practice-based research, the NGO PeaceWare Somaliland and The Copenhagen-Somali Seminar. Initiator of what is considered the first functioning telepsychiatric system in Africa, 2009-11 in Somaliland. Frederik Tygstrup is the director of the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies and professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. His primary specialisation is in the history and theory of the European novel. His present research interests include the intersections of artistic practices and other social practices, urban aesthetics, the history of representations and experiences of space, literature and medicine, literature and geography, literature and politics. Recent articles (in non-Scandinavian languages) include: "Cultural Territories,” in Nora Berning et.al.:Experiencing Space – Spacing Experience, (Metzler 2015);“Notes on Affect ,” in Sharma & Tygstrup (eds.):Structures of Feeling, (de Gruyter 2014).