Dissensualities and ruinations in the ways of occupying/ inhabiting city space

Abstract

The inicial point of this work is the request for articulation between aesthetics and politics, in the wake of authors who conceive politics as a sharing of the sensitive. This sharing is based on consensualities and dissensualities; the first for the traditional categorization of places, knowledge and competences within society, the second for the destabilization of pre-established installations that justify stereotyped values and authoritarian conduct. In disagreement with these positions, dissensualism exposes the damage in the form of ruination, made like the wreckage dragged from a colonial structure in continuous and variable manifestations. The systematization and understanding of these processes constitute the objective of our research, here highlighted by the approach of two conditions: that of homeless people under viaducts in the city of São Paulo, as mediated by different expressions of photojournalism, and that of the agglomeration of drug users in the streets/regions that constitute the popularly called Cracolândia in the central region of São Paulo. On the first set of images, the aesthetic view of Eduardo Anizelli stands out, and, on the second, the critical perspectives of Danilo Verpa and Daniel Arroyo appears. Approached as experiences of spatiality manifested in an aesthetic topography, the defensors of an empiric perspective empirics delineate an egalitarian perception of the other as a socially human in their ways of life.