LANDSCAPE AESTHETICS: material, gestures and images of violence

imagens materiais da violência

Abstract

This article advances on the premise of the existence of an aesthetic policy within the deteriorated frameworks of the social and cultural landscape, with the purpose of developing an epistemology that allows understanding contemporary violence. We focus on the connection between politics and aesthetics that contributes to structure, in a cruel and strategic way, a directed and multifunctional violence through the configuration of the landscape. In addressing the landscape of violence, we identify a space where the tone and texture of the forces operating in this context take shape. From a deleuzian perspective, we maintain that this landscape has a baroque character, always manifesting under a saturation logic. In its material dimension, the landscape influences sensitive experiences related to contemporary violence by providing cultural scripts that shape these perceptions. Its dynamic is expressed both in its content and form, articulated through a semiotics that constantly organizes and disorganizes the landscape.