2026 Vol.6 No.2

Medieval Mystical Narratives as Pre-Modern Utopias: New Conceptualizations of the Religious Experience by Mechthild von Magdeburg and Angela da Foligno

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Older research had traditionally assumed that the genre of utopias emerged only with Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), that is, at a time when the concept of the early modern nation had reached maturity and when intellectuals began to question the political status quo, looking for political and social alternatives in a future or projected world. Medievalists, however, have argued by now against thi... more

Digital Music as Artistic Research: Practice, Platforms, and Post-Digital Aesthetics

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This article approaches digital music as a form of artistic research, examining the ways aesthetic value is produced through creative practice, platform-based infrastructures, and post-digital sonic conditions. From a practice-informed standpoint, it understands composition, curation, and technologically mediated listening as primary modes of artistic inquiry, rather than as derivative outcomes... more

Aura: An Elusive Concept in Art Theory and Museum Practice

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According to Tate’s online glossary Art Terms, aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques. So what happens to the aura in the age of digital reproduction? The paper describes the origin of this concept, which was introduced by the author and art critic Walter Benjamin in 1936 and became popular in the 1980s. Today, aura ... more