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THE CITY AND THE MANUFACTURING SENSITIVITY IN OVERMODERNITY

Abstract

This article examines the role of the politics of images and their developments in the ways of saying-seeing-feeling the city and contemporary urban life. Its main objective is to conceptually discuss the power of sensitivity, through imagination and poetry, as forms of expanding the explanatory horizons of Geographic Science. To that end, the role of these values as important investigative parameters for studies on the city and the flows of urban life (mobilities) is discussed in an attempt to understand the challenges and paradoxes that exist in the context of an overmodern world.

Key words:
City; Experience; Iimage; Imagination; Mobility; Overmodernity

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