Abstract

POZO-CISTERNAS, Eduardo. Looking for an Aesthetics of Revolt in the Neoliberal City. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2022, n.28, e202.  Epub Dec 18, 2022. ISSN 2011-804X.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ppo.num28-17315.

In this article we will begin by reading one of Henry Lefebvre's classic texts "The Right to the City", rescuing the key distinction between the city as practical-sensitive architecture and the urban as the experience of everyday living. With this base, we propose that urbanization and industrial development produce a precariousness in daily living in the city, lacking a collective symbolization. Then we will project an updated analysis in the neoliberal context based on David Harvey and his differentiation between public assets and common assets mediated by his idea of appropriation and the role of social movements. The fundamental function to denounce the commodification of urban land but also to resist the production of subjectivity that the neoliberal city needs to sustain itself. Finally, and from what is decided, we will approach a possible aesthetics of revolt/resistance in the neoliberal city from a transdisciplinary perspective. Throughout the text, we will be proposing some reading keys of what happened specifically in the revolt of October 18, 2019, in Santiago de Chile.

Keywords : city; urban; neoliberalism; appropriation; social movement; subjectivity.

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