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The Journal of Somaesthetics is a peer-reviewed, online, academic research journal devoted to research that advances the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, understood as the critical study and meliorative cultivation of the experience and performance of the living body (or soma) as a site of sensory appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-stylization. https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/about

Journal of Somaesthetics is Elsevier Scopus indexed.

• Performing Bodies: Contemporary Aesthetics Between Everyday and the Arts

  31-01-2026

  Edited by Elena Romagnoli and Matteo Cherubini

  The issue seeks to explore some of the fundamental aesthetic questions underlying philosophical reflection on the body, particularly by conceiving it as a living and moving body—an active agent of action and interaction within the sphere of aesthetic experience. Such a perspective emphasizes the body’s embeddedness in practices and gestures that inform both artistic creation and everyday life. Special attention will also be devoted to the performative dimension of corporeality, understood as a domain in which meanings are not only expressed but actively constituted through movement, ritual, and collective practices.

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April

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• Journal of Somaesthetics: Call for Papers, Somaesthetics and Noise

  25-10-2025

  Somaesthetics, as a philosophical and interdisciplinary project, emphasizes the role of bodily perception, affect, and experience in aesthetic, ethical, and political life. This issue of The Journal of Somaesthetics is dedicated to exploring the theme of Noise as it intersects with somaesthetic inquiry. Far from being reducible to mere auditory excess or interference, noise is here understood expansively—as a concept, sensation, or phenomenon that disrupts norms, interrupts systems, and resists codification.

  We invite submissions that explore how noise—auditory, visual, political, medial, social, or corporeal—figures in somaesthetic experience and practice. How does noise register somatically, and how do embodied subjects make sense of, or productively engage with, noise? How does noise exceed frameworks of order, clarity, or coherence, and what does this excess afford for transformation, critique, or aesthetic innovation?

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• Brill book series, Studies in Somaesthetics, CfP: Somaesthetics and Bodies in the Eighteenth Century

  03-10-2025

  We invite scholars to investigate the rich intersections between somaesthetics—the critical study of embodied experience and sensory practice, which positions the body not merely as a passive object but as an active site of perception, cultivation, and aesthetic engagement—and the intellectual, cultural, and artistic life of the “long” eighteenth century.

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