Los roles del tacto en la estética del decrecimiento

Abstract

As it earns more and more followers due to an increasing awareness of the ecological crisis, there has been a call within the degrowth movement to develop further its aesthetic component. This is a search for a positive iconography, one able to counter the indifference toward data and mere criticism, and that may anticipate the aesthetics and the culture of degrowth as an era. In this article, we seek to show how an appeal to touch, as well as its uses, can participate in such a construction of a new iconography and aesthetics. Among other points, touch can help us go back to the concreteness of the corporal as opposed to the coldness of science communication, goes against the logic of the object as commodity, and can be symbolically linked with the values promoted within degrowth, such as sufficiency, equality, solidarity, the importance of mutual care, or intentional slowness.