1st Edition
Aesthetic Transaction, Digital Answerability and Literature Contact Light
Introduction 1 Aesthetics as Mutual Pursuit of Meaning-Making 2 Aesthetic Transaction and Experience of Digital Everyday 3 Answerability and the Digital Horizon of the Superaddressee 4 Aesthetic Answerability in Rabelais and the Digital Dorian Gray Index
Biography
Claudia Chung, PhD, is a writer, researcher, and educator whose work examines aesthetic activity, digital culture, and the creation of meaning through perception and relation. She earned her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, after more than a decade as a journalist in New York City covering everyday feminism, human interest, grief, national politics, and contemporary lifestyle. Her teaching draws on both scholarly research and editorial practice, and she has taught writing, rhetoric, aesthetic theory, and digital media at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York Film Academy, and Hunter College. Her work brings together literary theory, cultural analysis, and creative practice to explore how aesthetic expression moves across digital and material environments.
