Published as _Perspective in On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture (ISSN 2366-4142) AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE: VISUAL CULTURE AS THE MASTERPIECE OF NON- HUMANITY CHRISTIANE WAGNER christiane.wagner@malix.univ-paris1.fr <http://www.institut-acte.cnrs.fr/aesthetica/author/christianewagner/> Dr. Christiane Wagner has been a Professor of Aesthetics, post-doc researcher at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo since 2014. She received her PhD in Sciences of Art and Aesthetics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2013. Her recent publications include Esthétique: L’image contemporaine et l’analyse du concept de l’innovation (Paf, 2014) and Poïésis: Entre la raison et la sensibilité (3 rd ISA World Forum Vienna, RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Cul- ture, 2016). Her research interests include visual arts, visual sociology, and sciences of communication. KEYWORDS art, illusion, innovation, freedom, humanity PUBLICATION DATE Issue 2, November 30, 2016 HOW TO CITE Christiane Wagner. “Aesthetic Experience: Visual Culture as the Masterpiece of Non- humanity.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 2 (2016). <http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2016/12358/>. Permalink URL: <http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2016/12358/> URN: <urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-123586>