Landscape in the Interaction Order

Landscape;Ontological;Natural Resources and Environment

Caple, ZacharyMoss, Thylias ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Landscape;    Ontological;    Natural Resources and Environment;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

Landscape in the Interaction Order explores the concept of landscape as a product ofheterogeneous human practices and the life activities of other organisms. I argue thatconventionalized understandings of landscape as visually integrated scenes obfuscate thelabor and myriad material and semiotic practices that produce ;;landscapes.” As analternative, I advocate that landscapes should be perceived as emergent outcomes of vastsets of practices and interactional happenings. By attending to these practices andinteractions we are confronted with philosophical questions about the nature of socialengagement, the operations of working bodies in political ecologies, and ourresponsibilities to develop livable worlds. In so doing, landscapes escape the fixity andbackground status of scenery and emerge as developmentally consequential relationalstructures that are of the utmost matter of concern.Through this political and ontological reconfiguration of the landscape concept, Ichallenge notions of intentionality, the meaning of human engineering, and categories ofnature and culture. This work prompts consideration of the importance of responsivecollaboration (however asymmetrical) inside worlds of cultural and species differencesthat are necessarily flush with an infinity of non-living forces.