Education of the senses: aesthetics and biopolitics in surreal experience

Abstract

This paper takes as its theme (re) education of the senses as it was taken in the aesthetic experience of the early surrealist movement. In particular, it becomes focused on the relationship between body, space-time of the modern city as one of the most exciting experiences surreal. This experience takes place between two poles. On one hand we have the biopolitical structure of the city with all the scanning devices, control and rationality that is so unique. Moreover, this urban planning disciplinary body, the aesthetic experience undertaken by the movement was formed as a counterpoint. It is in one of his major works, The Peasant of Paris (1926) by Louis Aragon, we find the expression of more vigorous exercise. Wandering the urban modern, heterogeneous and changing offers himself as one of the richest and most fruitful experiments in multiple encounters to chance.