Contributions from the Paradigm of Complexity to Relational Aesthetics Thinking

Abstract

Since its first and precarious forays in the 1990s, "relational aesthetics" has needed to possess intellectual tools that allow us to go beyond mere acritical celebration. With this in mind, this article seeks to set out and discuss the possible interest of some of the categories from complex thinking and self-organisation, relating them to the challenges to be addressed by research in the sphere of contemporary relational aesthetics.

Thus, we will consider three specific contributions of this paradigm: the dynamics of reaction and diffusion, the systemic tendency towards homeostasis and homeorhesis and, finally, the articulation of the processes of short-, medium- and long-range repulsion, attraction and repulsion.