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Popular Inquiry: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture is a peer- and double blind-reviewed open-access online journal dedicated to the study of the philosophical aesthetics of popular culture.

POPULAR INQUIRY
The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture
Michaela Pašteková, “Dance Movement as the Saviour of the Routine In the Pandemic Era”
Dec 19

Dec 19 Michaela Pašteková, “Dance Movement as the Saviour of the Routine In the Pandemic Era”

Max Ryynänen
Yvonne Förster, "Emergent Technologies Between Phenomenology and Poststructuralism:  A Methodological Question"
Dec 18

Dec 18 Yvonne Förster, "Emergent Technologies Between Phenomenology and Poststructuralism: A Methodological Question"

Max Ryynänen
Max Ryynänen, "Editorial" (Vol 7)
Dec 18

Dec 18 Max Ryynänen, "Editorial" (Vol 7)

Max Ryynänen
2020/1 Boško Drobnjak & Miško Šuvaković, 21st ICA Meet Popular Inquiry (whole issue as PDF)
Sep 1

Sep 1 2020/1 Boško Drobnjak & Miško Šuvaković, 21st ICA Meet Popular Inquiry (whole issue as PDF)

Max Ryynänen
REVIEW: Sumati Yadav, “From Public to Publics to Purveyors,” Marcel Danesi, Popular Culture, Introductory Perspectives (4th Edition)
Sep 1

Sep 1 REVIEW: Sumati Yadav, “From Public to Publics to Purveyors,” Marcel Danesi, Popular Culture, Introductory Perspectives (4th Edition)

Max Ryynänen
REVIEW: Yvonne Förster, “Of Conceptual Roots and Future Visions of Philosophical Posthumanism,” Francesca Ferrando, Philosophical Posthumanism (2019)
Sep 1

Sep 1 REVIEW: Yvonne Förster, “Of Conceptual Roots and Future Visions of Philosophical Posthumanism,” Francesca Ferrando, Philosophical Posthumanism (2019)

Max Ryynänen
Yumi Kim Takenaka, “The Family of Man in Japan: A Photographic Exhibition for World Peace and Atomic Culture in the 1950s”
Sep 1

Sep 1 Yumi Kim Takenaka, “The Family of Man in Japan: A Photographic Exhibition for World Peace and Atomic Culture in the 1950s”

Max Ryynänen
Aleš Čakalić, “Tragedy and Farce in Dušan Kovačević’s Post-Yugoslav Screenplays”
Sep 1

Sep 1 Aleš Čakalić, “Tragedy and Farce in Dušan Kovačević’s Post-Yugoslav Screenplays”

Max Ryynänen
Maxim Demchuk, “Deconstruction of Melody and Rhythm as Aesthetic Elements of Contemporary Popular Music (The Case of Kanye West’s Album “Yeezus”)
Sep 1

Sep 1 Maxim Demchuk, “Deconstruction of Melody and Rhythm as Aesthetic Elements of Contemporary Popular Music (The Case of Kanye West’s Album “Yeezus”)

Max Ryynänen
Fuminori Akiba, “Aesthetics of Japanese Convenience Stores: From the Point of “Eating Alone””
Sep 1

Sep 1 Fuminori Akiba, “Aesthetics of Japanese Convenience Stores: From the Point of “Eating Alone””

Max Ryynänen
Dušan Milenković, “Understated Significance of Form in Gracyk’s Aesthetics of Popular Music”
Sep 1

Sep 1 Dušan Milenković, “Understated Significance of Form in Gracyk’s Aesthetics of Popular Music”

Max Ryynänen
Boško Drobnjak and Miško Šuvaković, “Editorial: 21st ICA Meets Popular Inquiry”
Sep 1

Sep 1 Boško Drobnjak and Miško Šuvaković, “Editorial: 21st ICA Meets Popular Inquiry”

Max Ryynänen
Jozef Kovalčik and Max Ryynänen, GAZING AT THE INVISIBLE:  HOW CAN AESTHETIC THEORY HELP MAKE SENSE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY  INITIATED BY COVID-19?
Apr 9

Apr 9 Jozef Kovalčik and Max Ryynänen, GAZING AT THE INVISIBLE: HOW CAN AESTHETIC THEORY HELP MAKE SENSE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY INITIATED BY COVID-19?

Max Ryynänen
POPULAR INQUIRY 2019/2 IN ONE PDF
Jan 2

Jan 2 POPULAR INQUIRY 2019/2 IN ONE PDF

Max Ryynänen
Danai Anagnostou, TO ADDRESS FEMININITY VIA STUDYING BELOW-THE-LINE FILM LABOUR PRACTICES
Dec 20

Dec 20 Danai Anagnostou, TO ADDRESS FEMININITY VIA STUDYING BELOW-THE-LINE FILM LABOUR PRACTICES

Max Ryynänen
Lenka Lee, NEW BEAUTY:  BETWEEN HIPSTERS  AND FOLKLORE
Dec 20

Dec 20 Lenka Lee, NEW BEAUTY: BETWEEN HIPSTERS AND FOLKLORE

Max Ryynänen
Juha Torvinen & Susanna Välimäki, STOCKHAUSEN´S HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET  AND THE CHALLENGE  OF CONCEPTUAL MUSIC
Dec 20

Dec 20 Juha Torvinen & Susanna Välimäki, STOCKHAUSEN´S HELICOPTER STRING QUARTET AND THE CHALLENGE OF CONCEPTUAL MUSIC

Max Ryynänen
Mari Nieves Vergara, THE KALEIDOSCOPIC  EXPERIENCE WITHIN EVERY-DAY-LIFE: ON AUTHORSHIP,  INTERTEXTUAL NARRATIVE, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MULTIFRACTALITY
Dec 20

Dec 20 Mari Nieves Vergara, THE KALEIDOSCOPIC EXPERIENCE WITHIN EVERY-DAY-LIFE: ON AUTHORSHIP, INTERTEXTUAL NARRATIVE, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND MULTIFRACTALITY

Max Ryynänen
Aleksi Vauhkonen, WITHIN WALLS  – THE FICTIONAL AUDIENCE OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Dec 20

Dec 20 Aleksi Vauhkonen, WITHIN WALLS – THE FICTIONAL AUDIENCE OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

Max Ryynänen
EDITORIAL (2019/2)
Dec 20

Dec 20 EDITORIAL (2019/2)

Max Ryynänen
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E-mail: popular.inquiry(at)aalto.fi. Snail mail: Popular Inquiry, Max Ryynänen, P.O. Box 31000, 76000 Aalto University, Finland.

We are thankful to Aalto University for making possible the publishing of this journal and to Svenska Kulturfonden for funding the development process. Special thanks to David Lewis and Kevin Tavin. Logo(s): Martina Obertova.