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100			_aDegen, Monica _9124159
245		0	_aConceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city
260			_bUrban Studies
260			_c2024
300			_a2176-2192
520			_aAesthetics, generally understood as an intensified emphasis on the sensorial look and feel of urban environments, has become an important perspective through which urban scholarship is examining the economic, social, political and cultural processes of urban regeneration projects across the globe. Much of this aestheticising work is now mediated by many kinds of digital technologies. The entanglement of digital technologies with the sensorial feel of urban redevelopments manifests in many different ways in different urban locations; it is deeply reshaping the embodied experiencing of urban life; and it enacts specific power relations. It is the focus of this paper. Drawing on the work of Lefebvre and Jansson, this article develops the notion of ‘textured’ space in order to offer an analytic vocabulary that can describe distinctive configurations of urban experience at the intersection of specific urban environments, bodily sensations, and digital devices. Analysing embodied sensory politics is important because various aspects of bodily sensoria are central to human experiences of, and relations between, both self and other. Hence bodies are enrolled differentially into different expressions of these new urban aesthetics: while some are seduced, others are made invisible or repelled, or are ambivalently entangled in digitally mediated aesthetic atmospheres. The article offers some examples of the power relations inherent in the textured aesthetics of three of the most significant, and interrelated, processes of contemporary, digitally mediated urban change: efforts to be seen as a ‘world-class city’ and to facilitate gentrification and tourism.
650			_a Aesthetic Power _9124160
650			_a Sensory _9124161
650			_a Social Difference _975266
650			_a Urban Aesthetics _9124162
650			_a Urban Environments _925468
650			_aEmbodiment _9119671
700			_a Rose, Gillian _981307
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241232501
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