Aesthetics, generally understood as an intensified emphasis on the sensorial look and feel of urban environments, has become an important perspective through which urban scholarship is examining the economic, social, political and cultural processes of urban regeneration projects across the globe. Much of this aestheticising work is now mediated by many kinds of digital technologies. The entanglement of digital technologies with the sensorial feel of urban redevelopments manifests in many different ways in different urban locations; it is deeply reshaping the embodied experiencing of urban life; and it enacts specific power relations. It is the focus of this paper. Drawing on the work of Lefebvre and Jansson, this article develops the notion of ‘textured’ space in order to offer an analytic vocabulary that can describe distinctive configurations of urban experience at the intersection of specific urban environments, bodily sensations, and digital devices. Analysing embodied sensory politics is important because various aspects of bodily sensoria are central to human experiences of, and relations between, both self and other. Hence bodies are enrolled differentially into different expressions of these new urban aesthetics: while some are seduced, others are made invisible or repelled, or are ambivalently entangled in digitally mediated aesthetic atmospheres. The article offers some examples of the power relations inherent in the textured aesthetics of three of the most significant, and interrelated, processes of contemporary, digitally mediated urban change: efforts to be seen as a ‘world-class city’ and to facilitate gentrification and tourism.

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数字化城市中审美力量的概念化

美学通常被理解为对城市环境的感官外观和感觉的强化强调，已成为城市学术研究全球城市复兴项目的经济、社会、政治和文化进程的重要视角。现在，大部分审美化工作都是通过多种数字技术来实现的。数字技术与城市重建的感官体验的交织在不同的城市地点以多种不同的方式表现出来；它正在深刻地重塑城市生活的具体体验；它制定了特定的权力关系。这是本文的重点。本文借鉴 Lefebvre 和 Jansson 的工作，发展了“纹理”空间的概念，以便提供一种分析词汇，可以描述特定城市环境、身体感觉和数字设备交汇处的城市体验的独特配置。分析具身感觉政治很重要，因为身体感觉的各个方面对于人类自我与他人的体验以及之间的关系至关重要。因此，身体以不同的方式融入这些新城市美学的不同表达中：有些人被诱惑，另一些人则被隐形或排斥，或者矛盾地纠缠在数字介导的审美氛围中。本文提供了一些例子，说明当代数字化城市变革的三个最重要且相互关联的进程的纹理美学中固有的权力关系：努力被视为“世界级城市”并促进中产阶级化和城市化。旅游。