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Starting from aesthetics as a discipline of knowledge, this research revolves around different concepts, phenomena and trends that participate in aesthetics. Decoding elements such as taste, cool and new aesthetics, or analyzing phenomena such as bad taste, we delimit a broad and abstract conception of aesthetics. Exposing these aspects allows us to promote a general point of view that makes aesthetic meta-information accessible, revealing its mechanisms, dynamics and intrinsic structures. Due to its influence on the configuration of the context, the conforma-tion of subjectivity and the production of collective imaginaries and, therefore, of society, we understand aesthetics as a discipline that allows the knowability of its environment, conditioning other spheres such as the political, the economic or the anthropological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze a series of publicprivate urban initiatives implemented from 2007 to 2015 in Rosario, Argentina from a governmental perspective. It is argued that embellishment, entertaining and mobility projects are intended to show the "downtown area of the city" and those who inhabit, move and consume within this area as healthy, happy, enterprising and cool individuals, both at the national and international levels. These projects are based on emotions, controlling desires and choices made by people and building different "cool" urban habitation practices aimed to promote consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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