THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNICATION AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY

The crisis in the categories of interpretation of reality implies today a shift of those determinants of social change that are based on technologies, in order to make them more able to understand their impact on the body and its political dimension. The explanation for the dense and paradoxical coexistence of opposites in many current social contexts is founded upon the complex and dynamic interweaving of modes of symbolization and ritualizing of social ties, with the sociocultural thickness acquired by the techno-digital networks and flows that have redefined the spatial and temporal boundaries between reason and imagination, knowledge and information, nature and artifice, art and science, expert knowledge and worldly experience. A new place is necessary for practices and experiences that give birth to a form of knowing-feeling that reduces the ability of the technological fact as a determining factor of societal restructuring. These practices and experiences are discussed within three tensions: Temporality: between amnesia and memory; the territory: between space and place; and art: between the museum and citizen performances.