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Oh, Eye See! How Nobel!

I’ve written extensively on all things visual. Not all my texts deal with vision, but I’d wager most of them do. That has to do with the heavy focus on landscape. It sort of comes with the territory, like it or not. For many it’s probably unsurprising, so bringing it might be odd. I’ve commented […]

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False, fake, deceptive

Fake this. Fake that. Fake, fake, fake, it’s all fake, even orgasms. If someone tells you otherwise, it’s fake news. As already stated a number of times, seven times to be specific (eight if the title counts), this essay is all about all things fake. The problem with this is, as we’ll come to see, […]

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Sg G(T/Ta)

I think I’ve been busy covering rather complex issues lately and this time is no different. However, this time I hope to be short, only looking at one article, like I did early on. From the French circle of geographers relevant to space and landscape, I’ll turning to Claude Raffestin, focusing on his article ‘Space, […]

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Oh, it’s tense!

It was already in my first post in this blog that I pointed out that I started broadening my horizons on all things landscape by picking up the concisely titled ‘Landscape’ by John Wylie. After that I have ventured into various articles that I happen to have found particularly insightful, as well as covered various […]

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Why am I impressed?

Denis Cosgrove provides us some of the finest reading (no pun intended) on landscapes. One should take a look at his work on landscape and representation, namely his major works: the ‘Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape’ and ‘The Palladian Landscape’. By no means is his work limited to the said works, but those are the […]

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Different vintage, same quality

Maurice Ronai picks up where he left with his follow up to his earlier article ‘Paysages’. Appearing in the same journal, the author sticks to the short titles, opting for ‘Paysages. II’ this time. Unsurprisingly, he reiterates some of the key insights from the previous landscape article. These need not be repeated, so I will […]