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• Adorno's tragic vision 

  Nivalainen, Markku (University of Jyväskylä, 2018)

  This dissertation deals with the tragic vision that motivates certain key aspects of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy. While in the formative early work, the Dialectic of Enlightenment, co-written with Max Horkheimer, ...

• A conceptual analysis of the oceanic feeling : with a special note on painterly aesthetics 

  Saarinen, Jussi A. (University of Jyväskylä, 2015)

• Aesthetics of Agency and the Rhythm of Gameplay 

  Kalmanlehto, Johan (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  In this study I investigate aesthetics of agency in games in terms of rhythm. Following C. Thi Nguyen's theory of agency as the aesthetic medium of games, I suggest that the aesthetic experience of agency can be interpreted ...

• Listening Without a Listener : Understanding the Self and the Activity of Listening to Music Through Nishitani Keiji’ Philosophy 

  Kuusela, Anttoni (Springer, 2024)

  In our everyday life, music is taken as an object – an object that is helpful in one sense or the other: Music can help alleviate sadness, lift the mood if life seems a bit dull, or enhance an already great atmosphere. In ...

• On the aestheticization of technologized bodies : a portrait of a cyborg(ed) form of agency 

  Pursiainen, Mimosa (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  Discussions revolving around cyborgs seldom include aesthetics, let alone propose aesthetics as an inextricable part of the phenomenon of the cyborg. Rather, the term “cyborg”, a contraction of “cybernetic organism”, ...