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    Editorial. Evolution and Aesthetics.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2015 - Evental Aesthetics 4 (2):4-21.
    Is aesthetics a product of evolution? Are human aesthetic behaviors in fact evolutionary adaptations? The creation of artistic objects and experiences is an important aesthetic behavior. But so is the perception of aesthetic phenomena qua aesthetic. The question of evolutionary aesthetics is whether humans have evolved the capacity not only to make beautiful things but also to appreciate the aesthetic qualities in things. Are our near-universal love of music and cute baby animals essential to our species’ evolutionary development, which took (...)
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  2. Aesthetics After Hegel: Editors Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong & Joanna Demers - 2012 - Evental Aesthetics 1 (1):4-10.
    Our contributors invite new ways of thinking Hegels ideas through contemporary art and theories that arise from current perspectives; and of thinking through such art and perspectives via Hegelianism.
     
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  3. Art and the City: Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong & Joanna Demers - 2012 - Evental Aesthetics 1 (3):4-9.
    In this issue, our contributors demonstrate how art in the city, art “about” the city, art compared to the city, can bring to attention the insidious forces underlying every city’s gleaming, wide-awake veneer.
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  4. Aesthetic Histories: Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2013 - Evental Aesthetics 2 (3):4-6.
    In "Aesthetic Histories" our contributors’ shared concern is the inspiring and confounding, healthy and uncomfortable and above all inevitable relationship between history and aesthetic praxis.
     
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  5. Evental Aesthetics (Vol. 3 No. 1, 2014) Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2014 - Evental Aesthetics 3 (1):4-7.
    Our contributors explore a rich variety of aesthetic problems that bring about the self-reflexive re-evaluation of ideas.
     
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  6. History, archaeology, and de-anthropocentrism in sound art.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2017 - In Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg & Barry Truax (eds.), The Routledge companion to sounding art. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
     
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  7. Hegels Being-Fluid in Corregidora, Blues, and (Post-)Black Aesthetics.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2012 - Evental Aesthetics 1 (1):85-120.
    This article offers Hegelian readings, based on his theory of fluid identity, of the blues and African-American identity. All identities, even Hegels, should be denied fixed definitions, in favor of fluid ones that allow for change and the sublation of otherness.
     
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  8. Hijacking: Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2014 - Evental Aesthetics 3 (2):4-10.
    A hijacking is a violent takeover, a misappropriation of something for a purpose other than its intended one, by parties other than those for whom the thing was meant. This issue explores the aesthetic practices and consequences of unauthorized repurposing.
     
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  9. Introductory Editorial: Snail, Shark, Spirit.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2013 - Evental Aesthetics 2 (2):4-17.
    In this special issue on animals and aesthetics, contributors explore encounters with animals in art and thought.
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  10. Introductory Editorial: Towards a Vital Materialist Aesthetics.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2015 - Evental Aesthetics 3 (3):4-16.
    In her book, Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett thinks through what ontological, political, and ecological questions would look like if humans could admit that matter and nonhuman things are living, creative agents; the contributors to this issue of Evental Aesthetics begin to think through what aesthetic questions would look like.
     
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  11. Reading: Aesthetics, Ownership, and Form of Life in Agamben's The Highest Poverty.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2014 - Evental Aesthetics 2 (4):99-107.
    Reading is an affective and reflective relationship with a text, whether it is a new, groundbreaking monograph or one of those books that keeps getting pulled off the shelf year after year. Unlike traditional reviews, the pieces in this section may veer off in new directions as critical reading becomes an extended occurrence of thinking, being, and creation. The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, by Giorgio Agamben.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
     
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    Retropective 1: Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 2015 - Evental Aesthetics 4 (1):4-7.
    EVENTAL AESTHETICS RETROSPECTIVE 1. LOOKING BACK AT 10 ISSUES OF EVENTAL AESTHETICS.
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  13. The Missed: Introduction.Mandy-Suzanne Wong & Joanna Demers - 2012 - Evental Aesthetics 1 (1):4-8.
    This introduction highlights the themes that arise from The Missed: the productivity and negativity of unrealized potential and missed opportunity.
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