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I am a Helsinki-based scholar (born 1972), writer (in Finnish; cult books without a cult audience I’d put it), ex gallerist (ROR, Kallio Kunsthalle, Klein) and (increasingly seldom) art critic/writer (FlashArtInternational, Art Pulse, Kunstkritikk, in Finnish e.g. Taide) – and even more seldom nowadays a performer (with dance companies, or at performance art events).
I gained my PhD in aesthetics at the University of Helsinki in 2009, with studies/research also at the University of Pisa, University of Uppsala and (as visiting PhD student with a grant from the Academy of Finland) Temple University Philadelphia. It was a nice mix of very different approaches, and I am happy that I saw how you can do things in various ways even in the academy.
Currently I work as Principal University Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University’s School of ARTS. PUL is an honorary tenured position, based on distinguished teaching merits, analogous to Reader in English universities. In my university I teach and supervise only MA and doctoral students. I am pretty free to do my courses as I want, so besides the ‘compulsory’ teachings in philosophy, aesthetics, and academic writing, I do theme courses, like e.g. on literature outside of literature, authorship, B-Film or, okay, this is a novel experiment, on aesthetics of martial arts. I try to create courses (as well as books) in the Steven Spielberg fashion. Spielberg has many times said, that he does films that he would have liked to see, e.g. as a kid. I create courses that I would like to have been on, and books, that I would have liked to read. Simple, in principle, but sometimes challenging.
As adjunct professor (docent) I am anchored also to the University of Helsinki (aesthetics), University of Jyväskylä (contemporary aesthetics and popular culture studies), and University of Eastern Finland (aesthetic culture), but I have more been teaching e.g. at the Estonian Academy of Art, and visiting other universities with lectures, lately e.g. the Federico II in Naples, Szeged University, Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the University of Firenze.
I am currently a member of the JUFO evaluation board, which makes decisions on the ranking of scholarly journals in Finland, and also a board member of the SLS’s funding jury (for literature and the arts). This has been very useful, as I have learned a lot on how this kind of structures work, and also I have seen what kind of projects exist. As establishing member (with Zoltán Somhegyi) and chair of the Society of Dialogical Aesthetics, I work hard to develop a new format for conferences, where pre-written and pre-presented longer papers leave space for dialogue at site (more in the link). I am also member of the board of the International Association of Aesthetics (2014-2018, 2024-) and on the organizing committee of next year’s world conference in (Prešov) Slovakia. I am the Finnish representant on the board of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics.
As editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in the Philosophy of Popular Culture, I work, with Dusan Milenkovic, to provide a platform for studying popular culture philosophically (please check the link for the ongoing call for manuscripts). A variety of peer-reviewed journals also have me as a more or less active board member, e.g. ESPES, (2020-) The Journal of Global Popular Culture, the Finnish journal for art education Research in Arts and Education (2018-), Journal of Ecohumanism (2021) and Nuova antropologia filosofica (2023) – and I am an ex board member in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics (2002-2005), Terra Aestheticae (2019-2022), Aesthetica Universalis (2017-2022), and also the Finnish journal for artistic research Ruukku (2017-2019).
I was also founding member of Popular Inquiry: The Journal of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture, which unfortunately had the destiny of having to quit (2023). I really enjoyed the attempt to create a journal for only philosophical takes on popular culture, but as the sad case of the journal having to quit, I have been happy with the book series (see above) at Palgrave. While being editor-in-chief of Popular Inquiry (2017-2023), I was also editor-in-chief of The Journal of Somaesthetics, with Falk Heinrich and Richard Shusterman (2018-2020) for a while. Both experiences were good. I saw many interesting manuscripts and had my say on what was published. For me the main reason for any board sitting is that I get to see things. Often, also, I have actually met nice people on those boards.
One could call me a generalist, and there is a bit of a truth in that, but my education also comes from a variety of sources, including the Helsinki School of aesthetics (applied and environmental, as the spearheads, with a broad outreach methodologically speaking), semiotics, Italian philosophy, and American pragmatism. Lately I have also expanded my field of knowledge also towards Indian philosophy (my outreach is anyway quite global), film studies, and idea history. I have also a strong relationship to German philosophy, especially phenomenology and the Frankfurt School. It would be hard to say only one of the aforementioned disciplines or specializations, if I’d have to tell someone what my field is. There have been many important teachers and mentors, but if I’d have to list a couple, I’d say Arto Haapala, Ossi Naukkarinen, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Eero Tarasti, Richard Shusterman, Göran Sörbom, Pauli Pylkkö, and Arnold Berleant. Topic-wise I have lately been interested in e.g. heritage, body philosophy, kitsch, martial arts, popular culture, art systems (globally), rasa theory, aesthetic experience and rap music. It is hard to pinpoint what I am, sometimes, but… Although topics keep on coming and going, I am in principle always doing aesthetics, sometimes just a bit extended, or applied – and of course I am a philosopher too, someone from cultural studies, or (lately quite often) from film studies. I believe in a Nietzschean fashion that although we need a strong base for our education (for me aesthetics, philosophy), we need to be free to make sense as scholars. Not always, but at least in my case, this is really true.
Quite naturally societal perspectives land in my work too, echoing my background: I am not originally from the middle class, and my (often challenging) immigrant childhood in ‘multicultural’ environments like Rinkeby Stockholm (working class cosmopolitanism) left formative traces. I grew up in the artworld and the less privileged suburbs, my father being a painter, and my mother a writer (who worked increasingly later on with library issues, in the end in the Ministry of Education of Finland).
Especially my book On The Philosophy of Central European Art: The History of an Institution and its Global Competitors (Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield 2020), an introduction to the birth and development of the concept of art and the art system in Central Europe, its global outreach through colonialism and diaspora – including an analysis of the way highbrow art has appropriated‘ folk’ art and popular culture – has a societal outreach, covering class, race, and gender, together with the global perspectives, while studying the art system. I am often astonished about the fact that people know so little about the art system. It is not very old, and most of its bugs follow its construction. If you have a small group of people who have all the power – continental European upper class educated males – who work out an institution for themselves, no wonder if it is not easy for women or people with other cultural backgrounds to enter later on. Bodily Engagements with Film, Images and Tech: Somavision (Routledge, 2022) is a journey into film, social media, photo documentation and other contemporary media practices from the point of view of the soma (body-mind). We watch so much with our bodies, from horror film to nature, and from malls to many contemporary art events our bodies are targeted, but I found that not many texts really deal with this. Fall 2023 Routledge published mine and Jozef Kovalcik’s A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture, which is about scenes, i.e. rap scenes, theater scenes and music scenes, and what they are, culturally and aesthetically speaking. I am convinced that scenes are quite autonomic. The people who make it in one would not often make it in another. They don’t share atmospheres, keyholders, nor trendy topics even to a certain extent. Realism, Myth, and the Vernacular in Pasolini’s Film and Philosophy: Beyond the Middle Class Matrix (Palgrave, 2024) is a take on the societal, philosophical, one could say nearly art philosophical side of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifework. Right now I am preparing my book about the aesthetics of martial arts (and martial arts movies) and editing a book on Gianni Vattimo’s philosophy (I signed with Bloomsbury), and one on the role of aesthetics across the disciplines (Bloomsbury, with Zoltán Somhegyi).
I have also edited e.g. the volumes Art, Excess, and Education (Palgrave 2019; with Kevin Tavin and Mira Kallio-Tavin) and Aesthetics in Dialogue (Peter Lang 2019; with Zoltan Somhegyi). Aesthetics Perspectives on Culture, Politics, Landscape: Appearance of the Political, co-edited with Elisabetta Di Stefano and Carsten Friberg came out summer 2022 (Springer, June 2022), as well as Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral (Routledge, co-edited with Susanne Ylönen and Heidi Kosonen, August 2022). The Changing Meaning of Kitsch, which I edited with Paco Barragan, was published February 2023. 2023 I also published with Zoltan Somhegyi (eds.) Aesthetic Theory Across The Disciplines (Rowman and Littlefield).
Below you find a list of my scholarly publications, and where possible, a link to them – or a PDF.
Forthcoming
“Aesthetics and Martial Arts Studies,” in Zoltán Somhegyi & Max Ryynänen, eds, Aesthetics as a Companion Discipline (London: Bloomsbury, est. 2026).
2025
Trying Out New Paths in Aesthetics, edited by Zoltán Somhegyi and Max Ryynänen (Leiden: Brill, 2025). Incl. my article “Martial Arts, A New Topic for Aesthetics?”, 71-91.
“Descriptive Aesthetics,” in The Symposium on Arnold Berleant’s Work, Contemporary Aesthetics Vol 23 (2025).
“Pioneers, Postmodernisms and Aesthetic Experience: A Brief History of Aesthetic Approaches to Rap Music,” with Petteri Enroth, for Richard Bramwell, ed., Cambridge Companion to Global Rap, 88-99 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).
2024
Realism, Myth, and the Vernacular in Pasolini’s Film and Philosophy: Beyond the Middle Class Matrix (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2024).
“Global Alternatives for Art as Aides for the Diversification of the Art System,” in Counterpoints of Art and Research, edited by Otso Aavanranta & Susanna Välimäki, 213-228 (Helsinki: University of the Arts, est. 2024).
“Regional Kitsch,” ESPES 2024: 2, 91-100.
“Aesthetics of Popular Culture as Everyday Aesthetics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” in Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life: Methodologies, History, and New Directions, edited by Lisa Giombini and Adrian Kvovacka (London – New York: Bloomsbury, est. 2023), 53-64.
“Questioning Heritage,” with Ksenia Kaverina, for Companion to the Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction, edited by Lisa Giombini and Zoltan Somhegyi (New York: Routledge, 2023).
”ITE-taide: Institutionaalinen hybridi” (Finnish outsider art: an institutional hybrid), in Veli Granö (ed.), ITE-taide (2023).
2023
With Elena Romagnoli, Stefano Marino, Aurosa Allison and Falk Heinrich, “Somaesthetics and Methodology: A Dialogue,” The Journal of Somaesthetics 2023:1-2, 61-107.
Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines, eds. Max Ryynänen & Zoltan Somhegyi (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, est. fall 2023). Authors include e.g. Tyrus Miller, Wendy Steiner, Lisa Giombini, Paul Duncum and Joseph Tanke. My own article “Aesthetics and Cultural Studies” (pp. 125-140) focuses on the relation of these two disciplines. All articles are about the relationship of aesthetics and some other discipline.
A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture was just (August 2023) published by Routledge (New York). Take a look at the description here and/or buy the book! This is the first book on the aesthetics of scenes, not just a take on what they are, but their artistic impact!
The Changing Meaning of Kitsch, ed. with Paco Barragan. New York: Palgrave, est. Jan 2023 – including our so far richest introduction ever written to the topic, “Kitsch, From Rejection to Acceptance: On the Changing Meaning of Kitsch in Today’s Cultural Production” (with Paco Barragan). Authors include e.g. Kathleen Higgins, Alison Rowley and Andrea Mecacci.
“Equipment as Art, Art as Equipment: Notes on Film, Architecture, and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Culture,” with Petteri Kummala, Contemporary Aesthetics (2023).
“Longing for a Place Which Does Not Exist: The Importance of Kitsch in the Estonian Singing Revolution,” with Eret Talviste, The Journal of Baltic Studies 2023/1, 1-23.
“A New Twenties: Notes on Instagram and the Return of the Centrality of
Montage and Slapstick in Contemporary Moving Image,” in Popular Inquiry 2023: 1, 27-38.
2022
Bodily Engagements with Film, Images, and Technology: Somavision. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral, ed. with Susanne Ylönen & Heidi Kosonen. New York: Routledge, 2022. Open access here! Includes mine, Ylönen’s and Kosonen’s Introduction.
Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape, ed. with Elisabetta Di Stefano and Carsten Friberg. Berlin: Springer, 2021. Includes my article “Political Concepts as Aesthetic Concepts,” and texts by the other editors, Katya Mandoki, Margus Vihalem, Mateusz Salwa and Majid Heidari. Includes also mine, Di Stefano’s and Friberg’s Introduction.
“Why Preserve? Questioning Central European Ethnicity, Appropriation, and Preserving Buildings; Or, Curating (In) Decay“, with Ksenia Kaverina, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Vol 31, No. 63 (2022/1): 26-43.
“Updating Artes Vulgares,” for the special issue on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica, ed. Eli Kramer, Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture Vol 5, 2021/4: 129-132.
“Living Beauty, Rethinking Rap: Revisiting Shusterman’s Philosophy of Hip Hop,” in Jerold Abrams, ed., Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 74-85.
“Well-Construed Examples: A Shy Note on Arnold Berleant’s Environmental Aesthetics,” Popular Inquiry 2022: 1, Special Issue: Liber Amicorum for Arnold Berleant, eds. Madalina Diaconu and Max Ryynänen, 157-162.
“Kitsch,” in Valery Vinogradovs (ed.), Aesthetic Literacy: A book for everyone, 152-153. Melbourne: Mont Publishing.
“Highbrow Somaesthetics of Sex,” a review on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica, ESPES 2022: 1, 171-174.
“Reposaari: Mission Impossible,” with Pia Euro and Harri Laakso, in Denise Ziegler and Pilvi Porkola, eds, Visual Artist’s Workbook: Essays and Exercises on Teaching Arts, 67-68 (Helsinki: Taideyliopisto).
2021
“Väline taideteoksena, taideteos välineenä: Viihteen ja taiteen välitiloja Martin Heideggerin tuotannon valossa,” [Equipment as Work of Art, Work of Art as Equipment: In-Betweens of Entertainment and Art in Margin Heidegger’s Philosophy], niin & näin 2021: 4, 25-31.
“Can The (Non-)Subaltern (Understand) Rap? Rap as Vernacular Critical Theory,” Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 2021/6, 213-229. Special issue: Contemporary Popular Culture and Social Criticism, guest eds, Valentina Antoniol & Samir Gandesha & Stefano Marino.
“Is Most Marxist Art (And ‘Activism’) Actually Social Democratic? And if so, what should art (and design) universities do about it?,” Research in Arts and Education 2021: 2, 81-94.
“Somaesthetics and Phenomenology – A Handful of Notes.” In the special issue of The Journal of Somaesthetics: Somaesthetics and Phenomenology (edited by me), Vol 7, 2021: 1, 4-14.
“Mario Perniola, the Dank Humanities, and the Role of the Philosopher in Contemporary Culture.” Ágalma: Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica fondata da Mario Perniola, 2021/May, 123-131.
“Review: Educating Bodies, Educating Streets (Richard Shusterman, ed, Bodies in the Street: The Somaesthetics of City Life)”, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol 5, No 2, Summer 2021: 115-121.
“Review: James O. Young, Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts“, for The British Journal of Aesthetics.
“Making Sense of ‘Tropical’ Kitsch.” With Anna-Sofia Sysser. Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol 19, 2021.
“Learning From DRE: Teaching Aesthetics and Art Theory to Artists (like an executive producer.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Comparative Literature, Vol 44, 2021: 1, 27-33.
2020
On The Philosophy of Central European Art: The History of an Institution and its Global Competitors. Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2020.
Editor, together with Riikka Perälä, of the Journal of Somaesthetics 2020/2, Unhealthy and Dangerous Lifestyles – and the Care of the Self, including the Introduction/Editorial (p. 4-9).
“Eat Your Heart Out: Peripheric Interpretation – Or How Films Penetrate Our Body”. In Esteticky Zbornik: Estetika centra a periferie, edited by Michaela Pašteková and Martin Kanuch, 108-124. Bratislava: Slovenská asociácia pre estetiku, 2020.
“Rethinking Art Education: The Art School Theory Teacher as an Executive Producer”. In Slavka Kopackova, ed, Estetická výchova a prax vyučovania estetiky v kontextoch európskeho estetického myslenia 19. a 20. storočia – dialóg s tradíciou a súčasné koncepcie. Presov: Presov University Press, 2020. 262-272.
Aesthetics in Dialogue: Applying Philosophy of Art in a Global World. Ed. with Zoltan Somhegyi. 2nd editor. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020. The book also includes my article “Rasa Industry” (95-106), which discusses today’s TV series through ancient Indian theatre theories. Other authors include e.g. Katya Mandoki, Kathleen Higgins, Yuriko Saito and Tyrus Miller.
”Elävää kauneutta: Kulttuurin kierrätyksestä ja vanhojen teosten uudelleenlämmittämisestä (sekä muista Richard Shustermanin varhaisen rap-estetiikan kulmakivistä,” in Sini Mononen, Janne Palkisto, Inka Rantakallio (eds), Musiikki ja merkityksenanto (Helsinki: Suoni, 2020), 237-254.
“Death Style, The Ultimate Expression of a Lifestyle: A Sketch for a Popular Futurology and Art Education for Funerals”, in Art Communication and Pop Culture 2019: 1-2, 6-17.
“Notes on the Yellow Press (and its Impact on Art). A Sketchy Return to the Mass Culture Debate.” Aesthetica Universalis, 2020: 1, 151-174.
& Jozef Kovalcik, “Gazing at the Invisible: How Can Aesthetic Theory Help Make Sense of the State of Emergency Initiated by Covid-19?” In Popular Inquiry 2020: 2, 3-5.
“Kitsch Happens: On the Kitsch Experience of Nature.” In ESPES 2019: 2, 10-16.
2019
Art, Excess, and Education: Historical and Discursive Contexts. (3rd) Ed. with Kevin Tavin & Mira Kallio-Tavin. (2019.) New York: Palgrave. “Introduction” (Tavin, Kallio-Tavin, Ryynänen), pp. 1-18, and by me only “Sending Chills Up My Spine: Somatic Film and the Care of the Self“, pp. 183-197.
“From Haunted Ruin to the Most Touristified of All Cities.” In Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins & Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds) (2019), Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments and Memorials, pp. 157-165. London: Routledge.
“Downgrading with Style: Middle Class Anxiety and the Aesthetic Performance of Role Distance“. Poetics 2019: 1 (Feb), 43-53. Together with Jarkko Pyysiäinen (who is here author 1).
Guest Editor with Jozef Kovalcik for The Journal of Somaesthetics: Body First – Somaesthetics and Popular Culture (2019: 1). The issue includes my texts: “Introduction” (with Jozef Kovalcik), pp. 4-5, and the article “Under the Skin: Notes on the Aesthetics of Distance and Visual Culture”, pp. 85-93
“Rasafication: The Aesthetic Manipulation of our Everyday”. The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 2019/1 (Spring), Vol 42 , pp. 165-169.
“A Handful of Takes on the Body.” Review. The Journal of Somaesthetics. Vol 4, 2019: 2, pp. 96-99, Special Issue: Somaesthetics and Technology. (Richard Shusterman (ed), Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics).
2018
“The Art Scenes.” Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol 16, 2018. (Co-written with Jozef Kovalcik.)
“Contemporary Kitsch: The Death of Pseudo Art and the Birth of Everyday Cheesiness (A Postcolonial Inquiry),” Terra Aestheticae, Vol I (Theoria), 2018: 1, 70-86.
Learning from Decay: Aesthetics of Architectural Disintegration, with Zoltan Somhegyi (co-written), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2018.
“Low Theory and Crazy White Men: An Interview with Jack Halberstam.” Popular Inquiry, Vol 2, Spring 2018, 2-9.
2017
“Rock me Amadeus: Aesthetics and the Highbrow Appropriation of Lowbrow.” In Zoltan Somhegyi (ed), Yearbook of the International Association for Aesthetics. Sharjah: IAA, 2017. 186-196.
“Aesthetics of Distance.” Aleksi Malmberg & Annukka Vähäsöyrinki (eds). Home Re-assembled. On Art, Destruction & Belonging. Rotterdam: Jap Sam Books, 2017.
“Chopin’s Heart: The Somatic Stimulation of Our Experience of Thingness in Everyday Popular Culture.” In Carsten Friberg & Raine Vasquez (eds), Heterologies of the Everyday. Copenhagen (Nordic Summer University Press, 2017, 190-205.)
2016
“Margins of Aesthetics.” With Jozef Kovalcik. In Contemporary Aesthetics 2016 (Vol 14).
2015
“Throwing the Body into the Fight: The Body as an Instrument in Political Art.” The Journal of Somaesthetics 2015: 1. Vol 1: Somaesthetics and Visual Art. 108-121.
“New Laokoon. On Dramaturgization or Dramaturgy as the Key to Understand the Role of the Artist Today.” In New Dramaturgy – New Dramaturge II. Ed. Vladislava Fekete. The Theatre Institute, Bratislava, 2015. 56-62.
“Teaching as a Work of Art.” With Taina Rajanti and Pia Euro. In Teija Löytönen (ed). Synnyt/Births (Finnish Journal for Art Education) 2015: 2. 41-61.
2014
Aesthetics of Popular Culture. Ed. with Jozef Kovalcik. Bratislava: Slovart Publishing. 2014.
* “A History of Aesthetics of Popular Culture” with Jozef Kovalcik. 14-49.
* “The High, the Low, and the Weak. An Interview with Gianni Vattimo”. 234-240.
* “Pragmatism and Popular Culture. An Interview with Richard Shusterman” with Jozef Kovalcik. 228-233.
“From Pragmatism to Fusion Philosophy.” Review. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics: 2014: 2. 149-156.
“Taidejalkapallo.” In Sokrateen syöksypusku. Eds Mikael Melan & Jussi Saarinen. Jyväskylä: Docendo, 2014. 128-139. [Art Soccer.]
2013
Elokuva, rakastettuni! [Film, mon amour!] Turku: Savukeidas, 2013.
2012
“Institutional Stress. When Bureaucracy Replaces Art.” Art Pulse. Spring 2012.
“Traveling alone? Ideas for a (better) future aesthetics of touring.” In Johanna Hammarberg & Martina Marti (eds): Touring in Scandinavia and the Baltics: Bridging Regional and International Perspectives. Helsinki: Baltic Circle / Tekijä. 8-11.
”Pakko nauraa. Camp korkeakulttuurina ja lasikattona”. [Forced Entertainment. Camp as high culture and glass ceiling.] Nuori Voima 2012: 4. 38-41.
Roskamaali. Jääkiekon estetiikkaa ja kulttuurifilosofiaa. [Garbage Goal. Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy of Ice Hockey.] Turku: Savukeidas.
2011
“Art and Education – or the dark side of pedagogy. A dialogue.” With Christiana Galanopoulou. Synnyt/Origins. Finnish Studies on Art. 2011 September. 1-16.
2009
“Estetiska debatter inom ishockeyvärlden.” Ed. Valdemar Lindekrantz. Sudden Death. Bilder av ishockey. 16-21. Göteborg: Scopium, 2009.
Learning from Venice. What a unique city can teach about the aesthetics. PhD dissertation. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, e-thesis series.
“Euroopan (museo)ryöstö, vanhan taiteen paikkasidonnaisuus ja digitaalinen vallankumous – Museofilosofiaa uudelle ajalle.” Kuriositeettikabi.net 2009: 1.
2008
“The Role of the Festival Audience”. In Johanna Hammarberg (ed) Theatre Festival Dictionary. Helsinki: Baltic Circle.
”Estetiska debatter inom ishockeyvärlden.” Ny Tid, Kontur 2008: 2. 4-5.
“Pinkkiä posliinia. Kitschin nykyhetki, oppaana Jeff Koons..” Toim. Seppo Knuuttila & Ulla Piela. Kansanestetiikka. Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja 87. 43-52. Helsinki: Kalevalaseura, 2008.
2007
“Silloin kolahti!” Parnasso 2007: 3. 26-31.
“Oskillaation massakulttuuri. Gianni Vattimo et al nykyaikaa etsimässä.” Synteesi2007: 1. 59-80.
“Lopputyön teoreettisen osan ohjaamisen erityisongelmia taideyliopistoissa.” Synnyt2007: 2. 54-61.
2006
”Liikkuminen ja liikenne Venetsian estetiikassa” Toim. Arto Haapala & Ossi Naukkarinen. Mobiiliestetiikka. Kirjoituksia liikkeen ja liikkumisen kulttuurista. Kansainvälisen soveltavan estetiikan raportteja no 3. 157-174. Lahti: Kansainvälinen soveltavan estetiikan instituutti, 2006.
“Nobrow.” Toim. Yrjänä Levanto & Ossi Naukkarinen & Susann Vihma. Taiteistuminen. 155-163. Helsinki: TAIK, 2006.
“Kätilö kasvattajana ja kasvatettavana. Teorian opettamisesta taiteilijoille” Synnyt. Taidekasvatuksen tiedonala 2006: 4. 34-40.
”Ajatuksia sodan ja terrorismin estetiikasta”. Kanava 2005: 6. 392-393.
2005
Learning from Venice. Contemporary Aesthetics, Special Volume 1 (2005): Aesthetics and Mobility.
Nobrow. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 2005 (32). 86-98.
Umberto Eco: James Joyce, Teräsmies ja vesinokkaeläin. Helsinki: Yliopistopaino, 2005. 258 s. Ed. with Tarja Knuuttila. Contributors: Eero Tarasti, Hannu Riikonen, Jan Blomstedt, Harri Veivo, Klaus Brax, Erna Oesch, Tarja Knuuttila, Max Ryynänen.
– ”Ainakin 4 Ecoa” (with Tarja Knuuttila), 7-18
– “Umberto Eco kitschin ja massakulttuurin estetiikasta”, 102-127
– “Arvoitus nimeltään Umberto Eco. Ugo Vollin haastattelu.”, 231-259
2004
The Double Life of Jeff Koons’ Made in Heaven Glass Artworks. Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 2004 (29-30). 99-111.
“Tutkijan roolista ja julkisesta keskustelusta.” Tiedepolitiikka 2004: 4, 53-57.
2003
“La experiencia estética del 11 e septiembre / The aesthetic experience of the september 11th”. Atlántica Internacional, Verano 2003, pp. 133-135.
”John Deweyn estetiikka.” Synteesi 2003: 4, 10-22.
”Venetsialaisia eskatologioita”. Kulttuurintutkimus 2003: 3, 45-52.
”Filosofihaastatteluiden filosofiaa pragmatistisen nykyestetiikan 10-vuotispäivän aattona. Richard Shustermanin haastattelu.”
Synteesi 2003: 4, 23-27. http://www.artsandletters.fau.edu/humanitieschair/finnish-interview.pdf
2002
”Terrorism and Aesthetic Experience (or take a cigar, Buddy!)” On Khaled Ramadan’s work. Ed. Marita Muukkonen. ArTErrorIsm. Poster inside the book.
Helsinki: NIFCA, 2002. http://www.nifca.org/2006/publications/2002/ramadan/2003_03_31.html
Ecoistin elämää. Mini-esseitä Umberto Econ 70-vuotissyntymäpäivien kunniaksi.Synteesi 2002: 1. 80-107. Toim. Tarja Knuuttilan kanssa. Kirjoittajat: Jaakko Hintikka, Oiva Kuisma, Jan Blomstedt, Harri Veivo, Erna Oesch, Klaus Brax, Tarja Knuuttila ja Max Ryynänen.
– ”Massakulttuuri, alemmat taiteet ja kulttuurihierarkiat.” 85-87.
”Jeff Koonsin Made in Heaven –lasitaideteosten ontologinen kaksoiselämä.” Synteesi 2002: 4, 58-66.
”Konst, kitsch och kvasi-kitsch.” Ny Tid 2002: 49. 6-7.
2001
“Umberto Eco, televisio ja kitsch.” Filmihullu 2001: 6, 19-20.
”Henry Parland ja elokuvataide.” Filmihullu 2001: 3, 18-23.
”Kitschens nya syndabockar” Ny Tid 2001: 11, 8-10. http://www.nytid.fi/arkiv/artikelnt-684-1667.html
2000
”Kitschgeneraattorit – toinen sukupolvi”. Taide 2000: 6. 18-21.
”Massakulttuuri in Memoriam.” Kuva 2000: 2. 28-31.
1998
”Taiteet puntarissa: Richard Shusterman, taide ja populaaritaide” Taide 1998: 3. 44-45.
