Call for Papers for Im@go No. 27 (I/2026)-The Atmospheres of the Imaginary – Edited by Pier Luca Marzo and Stefano Tomelleri

In recent years, the so-called affective/atmospheric turn (Schmitz, Bollnow, Böhme, Griffero) has
significantly contributed to foregrounding emotional atmospheres within the social sciences. Broadly speaking, they may be described as configurations of feeling elicited by the perception of a place, a group, a situation, or a historical moment. As Böhme argues, an atmosphere is neither a purely “inner feeling” nor an “external environment”; rather, it constitutes a space of emotional resonance enveloping the subjective and the objective, the corporeal and the symbolic, individual and collective life. It is a sensorial and affectively connoted sphere that, even prior to conceptualization, predisposes our relation to the world and transforms topological space into experiential space.
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