What is the "new"?

At the heart of this issue of Rivista di Estetica are the status of “novelty” and the various figures of what belongs to the category of “the new”: the innovative, unclassified, unexpected, unrecognizable, and so on, as well as the possibilities of the “new”, its creation, production, or discovery. We aim to consider what is most difficult to reflect, because it is not there or not yet there, or else successfully evades any projection and thematization. How does the “new” manifest and appear? What is the relationship between the new and change? How can change occur, and when does it become the “new”? What is “new” within the “novel,” or what is “novel” within the “new”? How do novelty, transformation, and surprise relate? What defines the “new” in the arts? And how can we develop a phenomenology of ontological novelty?