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Stefano Marino is a prominent figure in the middle generation of Italian aestheticians and head of the BA program in “Fashion Cultures and Practices” at the University of Bologna (Campus of Rimini). A philosopher who is also active as a rock drummer, he has authored and edited volumes on the philosophy of Adorno, Gadamer, Heidegger, Kant, Nietzsche, Radiohead, Frank Zappa, Pearl Jam, fashion and popular culture, while translating into Italian works of Adorno and Gadamer. The apropos of this conversation was an international conference devoted to Richard Shusterman’s aesthetics, a session for discussing the validity and relevance of a pragmatist approach to the problems of aesthetics in our time.

VERES: This conversation is taking place while preparations are going on for an international conference of aesthetics at Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design. More closely, this four-day conference is to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a highly influential book on aesthetics, which made its author, Richard Shusterman, world-renowned in many fields of the humanities and the arts, not only within the narrower circles of philosophers and aestheticians. What’s more, in 2002 a second, expanded edition has been brought, precisely ten years after the first publication of the Pragmatist Aesthetics, and this second edition proved to be as influential as the first was, delineating a new interdisciplinary field of study, somaesthetics, which greatly developed ever since. In 2012 a significant international symposium and an art show were held in Paris to celebrate the anniversary of the book that was clearly seen by many thinkers and artists as having an …