ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to the theme of volume-Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounters-by illuminating how certain artistic interventions can contribute to the process of imaginary world-making where national communities and the relation with cultural others can be imagined anew. Regev’s conceptualisation of aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a cultural condition that expresses the complexity of flows in the current conditions of globalisation has been very influential, particularly in studies of cosmopolitanism that are concerned with the consumption of cultural forms in popular culture like film and music. Artists engage with ideas about the world around us and what it means to be together. Artistic productions that invite audiences to put themselves in the place of invisible others can be said to be cosmopolitan in nature because they invite the audience to adopt the perspective of another.
