Cidade Maravilhosa, Rio Babilônia e Rio 40 Graus: três signos na economia simbólica da paisagem carioca

Abstract

Essay on sociological interpretation, we recover the relation between culture and city from the socio-structural condition constituted by the triangle of global capital flows, human mobilities (people, images, ideas, objects, etc.) and contemporary modes of symbolization and territorialization. This way, we will problematize the link between myth and history in the urban landscape of contemporary Rio de Janeiro with the purpose of resuming the articulation between economy and urban culture before the triad composed by the production, circulation and uses of symbolic properties, but in light of the way in which the updated replacement of the difference of this urban landscape with its congeners, in a context of fierce competition among city images, is organized according to the communicational question. This is due to the latter being a structural and functional systemic factor. In the case of Rio de Janeiro, it is a landscape inseparable from the literary, musical, visual and audiovisual duplications of the devices of expression and communication. In this way, we approach how the body-city is modulated in its landscape insofar as three signs - "Wonderful City", "Rio Babylon" and "Rio 40 Celsius Degrees-cross each other.