The mediation of the landscape

Abstract

As part of a broader study whose empiric object is the urban phenomenon and its mediative and interactive singularities, the present article examines the role played by the landscape, which constructs the image of the city and, at present, its mediatization. Neither process is exempt from technical reproductibility devices, which create the dubious tension between social and symbolic capital. In such registries, it is possible to uncover a metonymic rhetoric which presents the city as a fetish or value, posing questions that stimulate scientific investigation.