Dalle emozioni alle atmosfere emotive

Abstract

Future research on emotions must account for the constitutive role of emotional atmospheres, conceived as spatially and temporally extended affective configurations that mediate both the production and reception of artistic works. In literature, theatre, and other aesthetic practices, analytical methodologies need to integrate the premise that material entities are not inert but participate in affective relationality, exerting agency through their capacity to generate and modulate sensory-affective responses. Emotional atmospheres are not ancillary but foundational to all intersubjective experience. Furthermore, they must be situated within the shifting ontologies of artistic space, increasingly shaped by virtuality, interactivity, and modes of iimmersion that challenge traditional notions of aesthetic distance and passive spectatorship.