Philosophy Matters: City Spaces and the Aesthetics of Grit

This presentation features Renee M. Conroy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Northwest and Fulbright scholar.

About the Talk

Contemporary aesthetic sensibilities welcome the presence of a little grit in urban settings. In this talk, I examine several aspects of grit that emerge from considerations about what makes a city space perceptually exciting and affectively resonant and trace overlapping conceptual threads to elucidate the modern sentiment that metropolitan spaces benefit aesthetically when they possess a bit of grit.

I argue that urban grit’s allure consists in three mutually inflected aesthetic dimensions: its perceptual presence, its historical resonance and its ethical associations.

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