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(im)Material Geographies: From Poetics of Terraforming to Earth Scripts
No full textThe article explores the work of two contemporary poets, Alice Oswald and
J.R. Carpenter, with reference to the material and immaterial aspects of their poetic projects. It is argued that although disparate in their form, both artists’ works are linked by their interest in the environmental forces as (im)material manifestations of more-than-human agency. In this sense they can be seen as belonging to a longer and broader strain of poetic endeavours (like concrete poetry and land art) that struggle to problematise the relationship between form and meaning. The article also employs the notion of earth scripts which allows to see such poetic and artistic practices as forms of descriptions of the earth characterized by differing degrees of sensitivity to the environmental challenges posed by the Anthropocene
Eerie Landscape Materialities. On Vanishing Land by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton
No full textThe article offers a description and analysis of Justin Barton and Mark Fisher’s audio essay On Vanishing Land. It discusses the theoretical and conceptual framework proposed by Fisher in his The Weird and the Eerie (2016) and looks at their collective work from the perspective of a reversal of the “figure and background” trope associated with the tradition of artistic renderings of various landscapes. It is argued that the very format of the audio essay, together with the notion of the eerie, serve as particularly important modalities in attempting to render the material specificities of the landscapes and in recording the way in which landscape may “act” on individuals. The text further emphasises the material intricacies of the audio essay in various media formats and concludes with a recognition of the political potential of the form and content
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