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"Aesthetic Confluences between the Everyday and Nature’s Experience"

No. 72 (2025): Thémata Revista de Filosofía

Tourists of the Everyday: Aesthetic Belonging and Disconnection from the Environment

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2025.i72.06
Submitted
September 15, 2025
Published
2025-12-31

Abstract

This article examines the contemporary problem of aesthetic disconnection from the environment. Drawing on the concepts of belonging and dwelling, it explores how the commodification of urban and natural spaces, through phenomena such as gentrification and the tourist gaze, undermines our aesthetic relationship with everyday life. In response, it proposes solutions grounded in the reconfiguration of places and in everyday practices that promote care, reciprocity, and inclusion towards sustainable and committed ways of inhabiting the world.

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