Aesthetics Without Objects and Subjects: Relational Thinking for Global Challenges

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Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Perceptual Crisis and the Challenges for Aesthetics: An Introduction
	Diversion and a crisis in perception
	Relational aesthetics, without objects and subjects
	Away with ontology
	Against immersion
	For a process-oriented ontogenesis
	A cooperative and undisciplined eco-aesthetics
	Syncretism without method
2 The Real “Is” Relational
	Stones and planes of reality
	Science and aesthetics without grounds
	Without objects: Fluidity and impermanence
	The hard problem of consciousness
	Reflexive consciousness and infinite regress as the key to carrying on life
	No gap between scientific and manifest image of the world
	Perceptual densities, cooperation, and affordances
	Toward a relational aesthetics
	Against the dominance of the visual and the solid
	Away with isolation and interaction
	From interaction to correspondence
	From immersion to communication
	Perceiving is everywhere
	Ontogenetic becoming and extended life
3 From Object-Governed Aesthetics to Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects
	Sharing non-anthropo-hierarchical views
	Relational thinking is not subjectivism
	From intentional agency to attentive agencing
	Describing the world “as it is?”
	From arche-fossils to timeless becoming
	Aesthetics is not a bridge, because there is nothing to connect
	The alleged independence of objects
	Why call everything “object?”
	Back to stones and panpsychism
	The aesthetic field
	Aesthetic qualities are relative
	Everyday aesthetics and art without objects
	Beyond the aesthetics of representation: The case of food
	Aesthetic relation is here and now/everywhere and always
	Aesthetic qualities are processual
	Aesthetic correspondence as infinite sets
	A valuable daub
	Competence is authoritative, compassion is manifold: Critique of wine criticism
	Beauty as a relation
4 Haptic Perceiving
	Aesthetics as a middle way
	Hapticality as a perceptual disposition
	Fluidity, collusion, temperature
	Hapticality as reanimating practice
	From electric light to candle flame
	Savoring relations: Wind and earth
	Haptic perceiving as non-instantaneous engagement
	Against verbosity, toward an eco-aesthetics of reanimation
	Perceiving with everything
	Architecture without objects
	The soul is not a substance, but a field
	Neurodiversity and the sense of possibility
	Consumerism is the totem of the noumenon
	Infants, children, and language
	Material Engagement Theory, thinging, and stones again
	Knowledge as experience and the rheomode
	Do you think I have a theory?
5 Artisanal Intelligence
	Bewildering aesthetics
	Floating in-between the continuous and the discrete
	Generations: The past is ahead, the future is behind
	The linear perspective is not natural
	A teaspoon
	Children and nonindividualized creation
	Artisanal Intelligence
	Aesthetics is artisanal: For an amateur philosophy
	From competence to compassion: Aesthetic education in a minor key
	Coda: Haptic wisdom, aesthetic life
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Index of Names