Aesthetic and political dimensions of the craving for city life: the humanism of small solitudes

Abstract

The craving for city life reveals a collective experience over time, creating humanist structures for the emergence of aesthetic and political values. In these days of information technologies, the city coexists with its virtual doubles, which promote several possibilities of images about itself. These images allow for the construction of opinions with distinct meanings which atomize their commonly accepted sense, repositioning the encounter with the artistic object into a broader condition of aesthetic experiences.