Transacting aesthetics / edited by Sebastian Stankiewicz.

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The volume title, Transacting Aesthetics, being a paraphrase of the 19. International Congress of Aesthetics Krakow 2013 main topic Aesthetics in Action, emphasizes something active, dynamical, interactive, operative, participative, but also something what is malleable or in action, in progress, undergoing operations and whose boundaries cannot be circumscribed. The continuous form of the verb is to reflect an unaccomplished and unfinished state of affairs, of which description can be prepared only in a form of tem- porary reports or transactions. This characteristics entails an account of domain of aesthetics as sphere of ²in-between³ or ²in flux³. According to many papers presented in the course of the Krakow’s Congress and especially those, collected in the following volume, it can be noticed that ways of doing aesthetics have become more complex. Emergence of new scientific tools and methodologies, new artistic and aes- thetic phenomena and/or new sources of aesthetic reflection make aesthetics an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary sphere, wherein disciplinary convergences are privileged reshaping the domain into a field being subjected to permanent transacting. Reading the papers gathered in the volume we can observe two significant assumptions referring to the contemporary way of perceiving aesthetics and of doing it. The first is the persistent research attitude based on notions ªactivityº and ªprocessº as not just a transitory stance of doing research, but rather more long- lasting. And the second assumption is the inclusive attitude relying more on continuity then on traditional separations.