AISTHESIS: Revista Chilena de Investigaciones Estéticas

Aisthesis: Revista Chilena de Investigaciones Estéticas, of the Instituto de Estética of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, seeks to promote the development of aesthetic knowledge through the publication of unpublished scientific texts that, due to their originality, constitute a contribution to the discipline in its different currents and trends. Indeed, although philosophy remains its main genealogical reference, aesthetics has become today an interdisciplinary science, which seeks support in a vast spectrum of the humanities and social sciences to cover, from the form as materialization of meaning, the great expressive powers of culture and, in general, the totality of its instances of symbolic production.

The journal is a space for academic reflection openly sensitive to transdisciplinary research that considers contemporary debates at the intersection between the ontology of our times and the critique of the literary, the philosophical, the visual, the cinematic, the photographic, the architectural and/or the intermedial. It is open to those investigations that problematize from aesthetic and political approaches phenomena such as migrations of displaced populations, indigenous, Afrodescendant and Afro Latin American cultures,  Latin American Orientalism, revolts and their imaginary translations -such as the debate between republicanism and populism-, neo-fascist expressions of the time, housing crises or environmental disasters and the problems of sustainability and transformations of sensitivity in the digital era, among others.

To think about these phenomena, the journal is interested in receiving contributions from a diversity of theoretical perspectives coming from deconstruction, literary criticism, queer, post-porn and/or feminist theories, theories of the image, new materialisms, Anthropocene's theory, decolonial or postcolonial theories, theories that problematize identity or post-identity, theories of democracy that interrogate the dimension of affects and language, and transatlantic theories, among others. In this way, the journal wishes to promote the epistemic pluralism of research committed to hypotheses that dialogue in one way or another with the aesthetic.

Aisthesis invites potential authors to use inclusive language in their publications.

As of 2019, the magazine will be published digitally only.

eISSN: 0718-7181 / Print ISSN: 0568-3939