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You may be asking yourself: what the hell is urban sexiness all about? I have to confess that we don’t know. We speculated around various possibilities and went in different directions, but we agreed on one thing: sexiness provokes desire.

So our starting point was to uncover our own desires. Do you want to try unfolding yourself too? What attracts you to a city? How, by what, and by whom are you seduced? What affects you? Or, to pose the question differently, can you be affected? With what intensity? Or do you prefer to be anesthetized?

Looking at cities through the lenses of our own lived experiences, we drifted through a series of themes that “undress” the relations between the bodies of cities and the cities in the bodies. We looked at them in various ways: politically-engaged, poetically, or ironically. We juxtaposed city marketing and sensorial urbanism: the “spectacularized city”, consumed by mass-tourism and advertised by dubious marketing campaigns, VERSUS the “soft cities” of travelers, where unpredictable situations and hidden mysteries construct personal narratives and sensory memories. We criticized the mainstream and opened space for queer and marginal lifestyles. Moreover, we realized that none of us belongs to only one side of the game.

Molar processes generate product-bodies and city-images, while molecular processes reveal lived-ordinary-bodies and city-experiences. We are affected by both. We continuously dress and undress urban practices and representations through self-actualization. Which means the potential on-going redefinition of ourselves and our lifestyles made through processes of identification and exclusion. Cities are people and people are cities. Urbanism is a mode of being.

Finally, we have to remember that if affection, passion and desire move us, they also move our cities. Therefore, BROKE whishes to foster more affection in the city by fostering affectionate behavior.

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We hope you also gain some pleasure while reading our magazine.

Daniela Brasil
Editor-in-chief


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