The Aesthetic Construction of Brazil and its Collapses: Critique, Impasse and National Modernisms

Authors

  • Vladimir Safatle Universidade de Sao Paulo

Keywords:

Brazil, aesthetic modernisation, populist state, developmentalism, modernism, architecture, anthropophagic pact, tropicalism, dark modernism

Abstract

One of the fundamental axes of Brazil's national construction is the use of aesthetic modernisation as a force for the redefinition of space, time and territory. This aesthetic construction has three matrixes, three modernisms that are articulated in a complex relationship of conflict: architectural modernism as national modernisation organised within the conciliatory perspectives of the populist state, the modernism that attempts to reconcile aesthetic aspirations and the monopolistic formation of the culture industry, and the "dark modernism" that we find in integralism. Such matrices, in a way, still guide our horizon of social expectations or its atrophy. National critical thinking depends on aesthetic productivity and its limits. It will only succeed in finding new critical figures when the country is finally able to assume for itself the project of a consistent aesthetics of irreconciliation.

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2023-12-31

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Safatle, V. (2023). The Aesthetic Construction of Brazil and its Collapses: Critique, Impasse and National Modernisms. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, (15), 4–31. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/5275

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No. 15 (2023): «Ideas en Their Place»: Placing Critical Theory in the World System

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Essays

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