The city and the Poetic Approach of Social Experience
Résumé
In the name of experimental reasoning, the power of imagination and the heuristic merits of the artistic process are often anathema. Now, the discovery of a reality in which experience and existence are combined sums up the poetic adventure and developed a micro-sociology of everyday life of the city. This preoccupation is, in fact, two fold. On the one hand is the comprehensive description of the relationship between life and their stylizations in everyday practices and customs as well as in cultural works, and other are social sensitivities and representations that are relatively shared by individuals grouped in human communities. Benjamin offers us the first presentation of the player and the stroller as an urban personality, regulating their social existence on a temporal rythmicity and an experience of space in dissonance with the ideals that mobilized nascent industrial Europe. To envisage sociologically this abrupt separation from everyday existence of which the player is the modern hero, we are brought to envisage the fact that there exist effectual forms of experience based on a temporal rythmicity rather distinct from that which the administrated organization of global society imprints on existence. Moreover, the study of these effectual forms, by composing crystallizations that signify sociality, sketch the subjective reliefs of a space combining habit and risk, a proximity with both elsewhere and with otherness.