Mørkets fortryllende æstetik: Om framing af mørket som oplevelsesfænomen

 The article’s topic is aesthetization of nocturnal darkness as an experiental phenomenon and source of enchantment. First, the topic will be related to the current cultural status of natural darkness as a domain of experience economy as well as the condition for epiphanic experiences of the ‘astronomical sublime’. This conflictual status is theoretically explained through the concept of enchantment and its strong, but ambivalent relationship to the aesthetization of late modern society. During the article, the discussion will be supplemented and illuminated by analyses of how Danish dark sky sites frames natural darkness as a source of knowledge and wonder.