Ebook: Aesthetics in present future: the arts and the technological horizon

Title Page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Aesthetics as Future; The Virtual Body; Robots That Have Art; Unimodernism, or the Aesthetics of Permanent Present; The Kantian Philosophy of Twitter; Identifying and Interacting; Interlude; Future of Aesthetics; Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Performance; Artifice, or a New Nature; Aesthetics and Transcoding; Ruins; About the "Anything Goes in Art"; The Changing Canvas of the City; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors.;The theme of Aesthetics in Present Future concerns the new chances the arts have and the deep changes they are undergoing, due to the new media, and the digital world in which we are growingly immersed. That this world is to be understood from an aesthetic point of view, become clear if we think of how much of what we produce, and observe and study is offered through images in particular and perceptual means in general.