Estetica della zona critica: ecologia, scienza, politica

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https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/29673

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Critical Zones, Biodiversity, Environmental Aesthetics, Bruno Latour

Abstract

Aesthetics of the critical zone: ecology, science, politics

Starting from the concept of biodiversity, this contribution explores the intersection between aesthetics and environmental sciences, proposing a methodologically ecological co-implication. Bruno Latour’s thought – reinterpreted here through an aesthetic-ecological lens – plays a key role in deconstructing the modern ontological dualism underlying both certain strands of environmental aesthetics and the very notion of biodiversity. This opens the way for a relational and atmospheric aesthetics attentive to the co-presence of human and non-human actors, and enriched by a culturally situated science. This approach finds concrete expression in the concept of the Critical Zone, understood as a compositional paradigm where beauty emerges as an unstable balance of aesthetic, cognitive, and political elements.

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2025-09-03

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Comes, E. (2025). Estetica della zona critica: ecologia, scienza, politica. Itinera, (29), 118–129. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/29673

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No. 29 (2025): Aesthetics of biodiversity (ed. by E. Di Stefano, V. Maggiore, S. Tedesco)/Disinterest (ed. by D. Cecchi, M. Mazzocut-Mis)

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Aesthetics of Biodiversity. II. Aesthetics, science and ecology: new paradigms

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