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We are pleased to announce that the June issue of Espes journal has been published.
Thanks to guest editor prof. Carolyn Korsmeyer, it offers unique and fascinating reading on the aesthetics of touch.
This extensive symposium on the aesthetics of touch follows on from the previous summer issue on the olfactory aesthetics.
The segment of the work on the cover is by the remarkable young Prešov photographer Dávid Doroš (daviddoros.com).

Choose from the contents of this issue:

Symposium. Art, Aesthetics, and the Sense of Touch
Art, Aesthetics, and the Sense of Touch: Introduction | Carolyn Korsmeyer
Towards an Aesthetics of Touch: Challenges and Opportunities | Larry Shiner
A Subtle Aesthetic Touch in the Experience of Art | Marc Jiménez-Rolland, Mario Gensollen
Haptic Aesthetics as the Possibility of Haptic Epistemology | Maša Tomšič
Beyond Distance: The Aesthetic and Ethical Impact of Touch in Art | Barbora Řebíková
When Touch Is Refused or Accepted in Art: A Comparison of Van Gogh’s The Sunflowers and Maurizio Cattelan’s The Comedian | Ying Wu
O del mio Dolce Ardor. Thermoaesthetics and the
Phenomenology of Thermal Touch | Erika Natalia Molina Garcia
Patina of Sound: Valuing Vinyl Records as Relics of Aged Interaction | Brandon Polite, Elizabeth Scarbrough
Original Vinyl Only! Records, Touch, Auras, and the Past | Tony Chackal
Touch and the Aesthetics of Food | Sanna Hirvonen
Delectable Knowledge-How the Sense of Touch illuminates the Ontological Status of AI-Recipes | Johanna Schön
To Touch or Not to Touch: Taxidermy and the Museum | Ann C. Colley
The Aesthetics of Stones | Anna Petronella Foultier

Research Articles
Breaking Aesthetic Boundaries: Arthur Danto, Yuriko Saito, and the Challenge to Western Aesthetic Thought | Raquel Cascales
Polyaesthetic Education in Slovakia after 1990 – Resources, Concepts, and Prominent Figures (Juraj Hatrík) | Jana Hudáková, Slávka Kopčáková
In-determinism in Susanne Langer’s Philosophical Concept of Feeling and Eastern Thinking Tradition | Agáta Košičanová
Just Like Home: Photo Album on the Edge of the Everyday | Barbora Kundračíková
Internationalism Hits the Opera Stage: Nixon (and Dewey) in China | Kalle Puolakka

Artist Portfolios
Reconfiguring Realities: On the Intra-active Liminality of Bridges | Zuzana Križalkovičová

Book Reviews
Bodily Engagements with Film, Images and Technology: Somavision - A Book Review | Aurosa Alison
Towards a critical reading aesthetic texts: A new textbook for students of aesthetics at the University of Prešov | Slávka Kopčáková
Art is for the mind, not for the retina of the eye | Natália Prostredná
ESPES journal (electronic magazine of the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia) is a scholarly, aesthetic, artistic Internet-based journal, intended for the professional public in the given departments, for PhD, Bc and M.A. students, as well as for the broader public. ESPES regularly publishes a selection of professional works of various kinds - studies, reviews, essays, reports, etc. Contributions to the journal are anonymously peer-reviewed. The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.

Current issue: Vol 14, No 1 (2025): Art, Aesthetics, and the Sense of Touch