Introduction: Aesthetics of the Anthropocene 2

Introducing the further elaboration on Aesthetics of the Anthropocene (2): the controversial aspects of the idea of the Anthropocene, its relationship to philosophical reflection and forms of artistic expression, as well as the transformations and impact that related phenomena have had on the city and the urban and sub-urban landscape, the previous issue of the journal, also entitled to the Aesthetics of the Anthropocene and constituting with the present one a thematic and argumentative continuum, explored a number of theoreti-cal notions, exemplary figures of thought and paradigmatic cases of the relationship between the two terms. In this way, the definition of the world implied in the debate on a critical theory of the Anthropocene, the risks of catastrophic narratives of the ecological crisis, the need for an anthropo-logical foundation of the relationship between environment and architec-ture, as well as the everyday dimensions in which relationships to health and environmental crises are declined, have come to the fore.