POPPIN´ THE AESTHETICS OF POP with Max Ryynänen and Martin Boszorad

The dialogical lecture - philosophy in dialogue - focuses on themes like appropriation, interpretation and experience. The idea is to show how aesthetics can in practice work to shade light on cultural phenomena of the popular everyday.

BIOS:

Martin Boszorád (1985) received his PhD. and also docentship in the field of aesthetics after earlier studies in aesthetic education and German language and literature. He is currently the head of the Deparment of Ethics and Aesthetics and staff member of the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication at the Department of Ethics and Aesthetics (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia). His research interests include mainly an aesthetically oriented theorization of popular culture, in a wide sense. Although he is a man of the periphery, he considerably appreciates the mainstream.

Max Ryynänen is tenured as Senior Lecturer in Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University Finland. He is the former chair of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics and Editor-in-Chief of Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture and The Journal of Somaesthetics. His latest book On The Philosophy of Central European Art: The History of an Institution and its Global Competitors (Lexington Books, 2020) rewrote the story of the concept and institution of art from an intersectional and intercultural point of view, focusing also on the cultural systems that the art system globally overshadowed. March 2022 he is publishing Bodily Engagements with Film, Images and Technology: Somavision through Routledge. He is also the editor of e.g. Aesthetics in Dialogue (with Zoltan Somhegyi, Peter Lang 2020) and Art, Excess, Education (ed. with Kevin Tavin and Mira Kallio-Tavin, Palgrave 2019).