Abstract

Rather than addressing an overall theme the present issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics – in a new design by Studio Claus Due – presents independent articles of different scopes and perspectives.

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  • Rather than addressing an overall theme the present issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics – in a new design by Studio Claus Due – presents independent articles of different scopes and perspectives. It opens with Nikos Papastergiadis’ article “The Cultures of the South as Cosmos,” which is an analysis of shifting forms of the Global South in contemporary art that oppose coercive forms of cultural exchange and the cultural homogenization occasioned by top down visions of socio-economic development

  • Interpenetrated by neoliberal and authoritarian regimes the Global South no longer constitutes an ideological site of emancipatory resistance and exotic cultural difference, Papastergiadis argues

  • Drawing upon the so-called “uptake argument” and adopting the viewpoint of what he calls “a moderate moralist” Carroll argues against the view that sometimes a moral defect in an architectural work of art can be an aesthetic or artistic defect

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Introduction

Rather than addressing an overall theme the present issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics – in a new design by Studio Claus Due – presents independent articles of different scopes and perspectives. It opens with Nikos Papastergiadis’ article “The Cultures of the South as Cosmos,” which is an analysis of shifting forms of the Global South in contemporary art that oppose coercive forms of cultural exchange and the cultural homogenization occasioned by top down visions of socio-economic development.

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