Ever since I read Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ and watched Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’, I’ve thought of writing an article on that addressed faciality on social media, which is what Burnham does, in his own way, during the segment on ‘A White Woman’s Instagram’. Then came the summer of […]
This time I’m focusing on something that I guess I should have covered already, like years ago. I remember reading years ago how J. B. Jackson wrote about all kinds of topics related to landscape. One of them was about cars and landscapes, which will be the topic of this essay. Right, so, interested in […]
I’m not fond of doing more of the same, albeit, strictly speaking that’s actually impossible. Anyway, the point here is that I’ve addressed this before in an earlier essay. In that essay I pointed out that I can’t remember what it is that pushed me to this direction, what made me cross a threshold to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maurice Ronai covers various aspects of landscape in his plainly titled article ‘Paysages’. He addresses landscape through ‘géoscopie’ (126-133), ‘géographie’ (133-139), ‘géosémie’ (139-153) and ‘géophilie’ (153-159). Ronai also discusses space, a related concept, and what is understood as the objective reality is referred to as the real or real space. The first part on ‘géoscopie’ […]