City/communication/culture towards a transdisciplinary perspective

Abstract

This article is oriented towards constructing a transdisciplinary perspective to reflect on the debates that converge in its title: City/Communication/Culture. In this sense, the reflections start by taking up some productions that go in this direction, prior recognition of the historical convergence that has been taking place in the Latin American region, particularly between urban studies, on the one hand, and communication studies, on the other. We then propose a reference to two tendencies that cities are increasingly producing: the commodification and the mediatization of the experience of the actors.
By recovering different authors from the field of communication, we will try to account for the features and dynamics that prevail in the production of contemporary urban scenarios, indicating the productive character of the city. Thus, we recover the intimate relationships between capitalist/touristified cities, mercantile/advertising communication, and the construction of social ties subsumed by the logic of capital.
As we advance in the article, we reflect phenomenologically on dimensions of current urban life in Córdoba and other cities of the country: subjects with devices attached to the body, in closed neighborhoods, with fixed trajectories of mobility, with children killed to take care of merchandise; shaping our sensibility and collective sensorium.
For us, the city is not only considered as a stage or continent, a frame or framing, but today, the city has an active role in the production of ways of being together/being apart. And as well of battling capitalism.