Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power

Series Editors:
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales
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Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power explores how artistic practices and philosophical inquiry intervene in, reconfigure, and transform the relations of power that shape contemporary life. The series approaches power not merely as domination or constraint, but as a force that organizes what can be seen, said, and imagined—structuring the distribution of the sensible and delimiting the conditions of experience. At its core lies the conviction that artistic creation, conceptual reflection, and technical mediation can unsettle established configurations of the sensible and open new modes of perception, relation, and critique. Grounded in a critical ontology of the present, the series offers a transdisciplinary platform that brings philosophy into dialogue with the arts, media theory, cultural studies, and social thought, fostering exchanges between theoretical analysis and creative practice.

The series is guided by three transversal axes:
•Imagination, aesthetics, and power — how aesthetic forms shape sensibility and political horizons.
•Affect, embodiment, and the distribution of the sensible — how experience and corporeality become sites of regulation and resistance.
•Technics, mediation, and contemporary conditions of existence — how media and material infrastructures modulate subjectivity and agency.

Conceived as a polyphonic and critically engaged space, the series welcomes perspectives from the Global South and seeks works that interrogate the inequalities and transformations of the present. All volumes are peer-reviewed and published in English, and translations of outstanding works originally published in other languages are also welcome.
ISSN:
1877-0029
Cover Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power
Plato’s Power
Volume 10
978-90-04-72204-0
The Enigma of Art: On the Provenance of Artistic Creation
Volume 9
By: Gino Zaccaria
978-90-04-46011-9
Political Poetry across the Centuries
Volume 8
978-90-04-32353-7
Immanenz & Einheit
Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Rolf Kühn
Volume 7
978-90-04-28863-8
Art, Intellect and Politics
A Diachronic Perspective
Volume 6
978-90-04-24220-3
Value
Sources and Readings on a Key Concept of the Globalized World
Volume 5
978-90-04-22099-7
Zenons Politeia
Volume 4
By: Robert Bees
978-90-04-20746-2
The European Image of God and Man
A Contribution to the Debate on Human Rights
Volume 3
978-90-04-19378-9
Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts
Überlegungen zum Spätwerk des Horaz
Volume 2
By: Hans-Christian Günther
978-90-47-44410-7
Artists and Intellectuals and the Requests of Power
Volume 1
By: Ivo de Gennaro and Hans-Christian Günther
978-90-47-42560-1
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales is a philosopher working in contemporary continental thought, with a focus on phenomenology, philosophy of culture, and philosophy of technology. His work explores imagination, memory, and absence as aesthetic and political forces that shape contemporary experience. Drawing on phenomenology, critical theory, deconstruction and media philosophy, he investigates how technics and culture mediate processes of individuation, affect, and collective life under current social and technological conditions. He is the author of Husserl (RBA, 2016) and Imagen y experiencia. La fenomenologia husserliana de la fantasía (1898–1913) (Olms, 2026), and editor of Merleau-Ponty: Institution–Ontology–Politics (Brill, 2026) and Individuating Simondon: Between Life and Technology (Springer, forthcoming).

Jörg Sternagel (Dr. phil. habil.) is a writer and scholar in media studies with a focus on inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives from phenomenology, media and performance philosophy, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, posthumanist thought, digital media, visual studies, critical theory, semiotics, poetry, and language. His recent publications include the monographs Ethisches Sehen (Textem, 2025) and Ethics of Alterity. Aisthetics of Existence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and the co-edited collections Denken des Medialen. Zur Bedeutung des Dazwischen (Transcript, 2024) and Beyond Mimesis. Aesthetic Experience in Uncanny Valleys (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
Series Editors
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jörg Sternagel (Universität Passau, Germany)

Advisory Board
Minou Arjomand (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Luciana da Costa Dias (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)
Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University, USA)
Selin Gerlek (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kélina Gotman (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
Gabrielle Hezekiah (OCAD University, Canada)
Yuk Hui (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Stefan Kristensen (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Alisa Kronberger (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Germany)
Susanna Lindberg (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Christian Lotz (Michigan State University, USA)
Laura Marks (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Roberto Nigro (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany)
Pablo Esteban Rodríguez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Founding Editor
Hans-Christian Günther (†), (Akademie deutsch-italienischer Studien, Meran)
All interested in how aesthetic, conceptual, and material practices both shape and contest social conditions and power relations.

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