Abstract This article proposes a philosophical reinterpretation of contemporary aestheticization beyond the sociological framework of hypermodernity. In dialogue with Gilles Lipovetsky, it argues that the contemporary proliferation of aesthetic forms cannot be understood only as an effect of design, consumption, fashion, or the cultural industries, but also as the symptom of a deeper transformation: the loss of an operative cosmology capable of structuring relations between humans, territory, community, and the invisible world. This condition is described here as a cosmological void. The article introduces the concept of cosmological aesthetics to describe aesthetic, artistic, and ritual forms that function as visible articulations of relational ontologies. Drawing on field experience in the Peruvian Amazon and research on Andean cosmologies, the essay argues that in these contexts aesthetic forms do not merely represent a worldview but help sustain and render operative a relational structure of the world.
Roberto Luis Asconiga Skare (Sat,) studied this question.