Editorial [Antae, Vol.6(2-3)]

Abstract

The aesthetic is truly and necessarily trans-, multi-, and inter-disciplinary. It intersects with the entire spectrum of critical thought, including but not limited to philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, theology, literary studies, media and technology studies, gender studies, game studies, political science and theory, sociology, and anthropology. The study of aesthetics invites research and analysis informed by multiple disciplines; no one discourse comes close to exhausting aesthetics. Furthermore, the inherent complexity of the aesthetic not only leads to an openness that can be termed inter-disciplinary, but—keeping in mind the myriad possibilities of the grammatical category of the prefix—also encompasses non-, extra-, or even anti-disciplinary approaches. It is thus apt that antae, which embodies this ethos by presenting itself as a journal on the interspaces of English studies, dedicates a special issue to aesthetics.