Politics of aisthesis and the aestheticisation of politics in the digital world. On technology, aesthetic and the faschosphere

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in: Studi di Estetica, Nr. 31, 2025, S. 73-86.

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abstract = "Today's political conditions - dominated by the global spread of far-right ideologies and governments - make it necessary to reflect on the political dimension not only of art but of aesthetics itself. Using the theories of Walter Benjamin and Vil{\'e}m Flusser, this article analyses the relationship between aesthetics, technology, and politics, questioning why the digital world has proven to be a fertile ground for the aestheticisation of politics in a late-fascist key. While Flusser shows how technical images program subjects, Benjamin helps us understand how the recursiveness of the digital world favours the spectacularisation and aestheticisation of political discourse. Finally, I will also examine how the aesthetic-artistic gesture becomes a political act capable of activating practices of resistance and outsmarting the pervasive algorithmic infrastructure of the digital world.",
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