Agalma: Rivista di Studi Culturali e di Estetica is an academic journal

Academic journal

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 dedicated to cultural studies

Cultural studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...

 and aesthetics

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

. It was established in 2000 by the philosopher Mario Perniola

Mario Perniola

Mario Perniola is an internationally acclaimed Italian philosopher, professor of Aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English.-Biography:...

 and a group of Italian

Italy

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 and international intellectuals in response to the widely felt discontent with the international and Italian philosophical and cultural contexts at the time. Its purpose is to provide a forum for the theoretical work around cultural studies

Cultural studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...

 and aesthetics in Italy. The title of the journal reflects its aims, contents, and orientation. "Agalma" is an ancient Greek word that means ornament, gift, image, and statue. It possesses a broad meaning in which economic value, aesthetic aspects, cultural studies, and symbolic power come together. The first part of an issue is usually monograph

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ic and connected to the theme of an international conference organized by the Chair of Aesthetics of the University of Rome Tor Vergata

University of Rome Tor Vergata

The University of Rome Tor Vergata is a public university located in Rome, Italy. It is one of the largest research-based institutions in the country. The University is an international center for research and education and it is well known for scientific studies...

 and other cultural institutions. The other sections include discussions, interviews, and reviews covering a wide range of concepts associated to both Western and non-Western philosophical thought.

Collaborators

• Jean Baudrillard
  Jean Baudrillard
  Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
  
  
• Sergio Benvenuto
• Bernardo Bertolucci
  Bernardo Bertolucci
  Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...
  
  
• Luc Boltanski
  Luc Boltanski
  Luc Boltanski is the leading figure in the new "pragmatic" school of French sociology. He is a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and the founder of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale....
  
  
• Christine Buci-Glucksmann
  Christine Buci-Glucksmann
  Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a French philosopher and Professor Emeritus from University of Paris VIII specializing in the aesthetics of the Baroque, Japan and computer art...
  
  
• Peter Burke
  Peter Burke
  Peter Burke is a British historian and professor.He was born to a Roman Catholic father and Jewish mother . He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College...
  
  
• Gian Carlo Calza
• Pierre Dalla Vigna
• Milo de Angelis
  Milo de Angelis
  Milo De Angelis is an Italian language poet. He is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a volume of stories and one of essays...
  
  
• Massimo Donà
• Gillo Dorfles
• Jean Galard
• Sergio Givone
• Boris Groys
  Boris Groys
  Boris Efimovich Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany...
  
  
• Nathalie Heinich
• Joseph Kosuth
  Joseph Kosuth
  Joseph Kosuth , is an American conceptual artist. Kosuth lives in New York and Rome.-Early life and career:Kosuth was born in Toledo, Ohio. He attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963, Kosuth enrolled at...
  
  
• Bruno Latour
  Bruno Latour
  Bruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
  
  
• Sarah F. Maclaren
• Michel Maffesoli
  Michel Maffesoli
  Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist of italian origin.He is a former pupil of Gilbert Durand and is at present a professor at the Paris Descartes University. Michel Maffesoli made a work around the issue of social link community, the prevalence of imagination and everyday life in contemporary...
  
  
• Massimo Recalcati
• Richard Shusterman
  Richard Shusterman
  Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher, currently the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He is internationally known for his contributions to philosophical aesthetics.-Biography and career:Richard...
  
  
• Hugh J. Silverman
  Hugh J. Silverman
  Hugh J. Silverman is an American philosopher and cultural theorist whose writing, lecturing, teaching, editing, and innovative international conferencing has participated in the development of a postmodern network that reaches around the world...
  
  
• Jean-Marie Straub
  Jean-Marie Straub
  Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006...
  
  
• Ariano Suassuna
  Ariano Suassuna
  Ariano Suassuna is a Brazilian playwright and author.He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco....
  
  
• Andrea Tagliapietra

Editorial Staff

Director: Mario Perniola

Mario Perniola

Mario Perniola is an internationally acclaimed Italian philosopher, professor of Aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English.-Biography:...

Co-director: Paolo Fabbri

Paolo Fabbri

Paolo Fabbri is an Italian musicologist and academic. In 1989 he was awarded the Dent Medal. He is best known for his extensive publications on the life and works of Gioachino Rossini, and for a biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi which was first published in the Italian language in Turin in...

Editor: Angì Perniola

Co-editor: Sarah F. Maclaren

Sarah F. Maclaren

Sarah F. Maclaren is an Anglo-Italiancultural theorist, sociologist and anthropologist. She is also an expert of Cultural Studies, History of ideas, Aesthetics, Rhetoric, and a cultural and academic organizer.-Biography:...

Editorial committee: Anna Camaiti Hostert, Antonello Colimberti, Pierre Dalla Vigna, Andrea De Santis, Aldo Marroni, Fabrizio Scrivano, Isabella Vicentini

Secretary: Federico De Donato

International scientific committee:
Paolo Bartoloni (Galway)
Giovanna Borradori

Giovanna Borradori

Giovanna Borradori is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. She has lived in the United States since 1989. Borradori is a specialist of Continental philosophy, Aesthetics, and the philosophy of terrorism...

 (New York)
Carlos Couto de Sequeira Costa (Lisbona)
Annateresa Fabris (San Paolo)
Carsten Juhl (Copenaghen)
Jorge Lonzano (Madrid)
Robert Lumley (Londra)
Annie Reniers Philippot (Bruxelles)
Massimo Verdicchio (Edmonton)

Correspondents:
Vania Baldi (Lisbona)
René Capovin (Salon de Provence)