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Tipo
Capítulo em Livro


Título
Urban Scenarios: Gone Vacant, Virtual, and Violent

Participantes na publicação
G Corrêa (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CFCUL

Resumo
Drawing on recent interdisciplinary critical approaches to landscape in the field of performance studies, and adopting phenomenological methods of sensory analysis, this paper explores the cityscapes expressed in three fictional works that share a Symbolist/post-Symbolist aesthetic: in the novel Bruges-la-morte (1892) by Belgian Georges Rodenbach, in the novel A Caverna (2000) by Portuguese José Saramago, and in the film Inland Empire (2006) by North-American David Lynch. \nInstead of examining the three fictional cityscapes in terms of the usual modernist/post-modernist, industrial/post-industrial oppositional categories, this presentation adopts a micropolitical and ecophilosophical perspective—in the light of concepts by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jacques Rancière—to demonstrate that there are more aesthetic/political continuities than discontinuities among the three urban scenarios. All three urban fictions are striking examples of how physical space—as a medium of cultural and symbolic production—not only creates and sustains social identity, but also fosters micropolitical imaginaries. The co-existence of the three fictional cityscapes in existing cities suggests a large number of fragmentary possible urban worlds, as well as creative gaps in our understanding of contemporary city space.

Editor
Pedro Gadanho, Susana Oliveira


Instituição
CFCUL-Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Suporte
Caleidoscópio

Identificadores da Publicação

Local
Lisboa, Portugal

Organizadores
Pedro Gadanho, Susana Oliveira

Editora
Caleidoscópio



Keywords
Cityscapes Symbolist aesthetics Jacques Rancière Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari ecophilosophy

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