How can we better understand industry and innovation from perspectives of art and aesthetics? 

Professor Josef Chytry uniquely combines scholarly work in aesthetic philosophy with research into industrial change and innovation. His pathbreaking treatise The Aesthetic State (University of California Press 2018), based on his Oxford Doctoral Dissertation, is an exciting exploration into how political and economic organization can be shaped by aesthetics philosophies.

Currently Josef reflects on technical innovation and organizational change as founding Managing Editor of the Oxford University Press Journal of Industrial and Corporate Change at the Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley where he also directs the Centre for Aesthetics and Politics (CAP) at CCA He lectures regularly in philosophy at Stanford University Continuing Studies. In he is an advisor to the Berkeley magazine Dispatches. Amongst his recent essays you find

- Mountain of Paradise (2013): on California "civilization"

- Cosmotheism (2020): on 'heliocentric" obsessions spreading into political, economic, and crypto-scientific concerns.

Josef Chytry is Professor in Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and Founding Managing Editor of the Oxford journal Industrial and Corporate Change at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

1. The Aesthetic State (1989): the opening salvo
2. Mountain of Paradise (2013): my foray into California "civilization" which is a kind of "localization" of my theorizing (such as it is,..)
3. Cosmotheism (2020): my 'heliocentric" obsessions spreading into political, economic, and crypto-scientific concerns
4. The Cytherean Cycle (2020) 

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