John Buchan’s ‘Hesperides’: landscape rhetoric                 and the aesthetics of bodily experience on the South African Highveld, 1901-1903

Foster, Jeremy

doi:10.1177/096746089800500306

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“…On its own, the analysis of visible depth in the Phenomenology of Perception enables accounts of landscape. As Ingold's (2001) work along with Foster (1998) and Dubow's (2001) accounts of historical encounters with South African landscape, and my own account of the Glastonbury landscape (Wylie, 2002), seek to illustrate, Merleau-Ponty's early writings may be used to explicate how bodily engagements with variable topographies and dimensionalities produce distinctive ways of being in landscape that become encultured, sedimented, and communicable.…”

Section: Depth As Transcendantmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depths and Folds: On Landscape and the Gazing Subject

2006

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The aim of this paper is to take some steps towards a renewed understanding of landscape and the gazing subject. A first main section,`Depth, outlines Merleau-Ponty's final visual philosophy and its attempts to replace a spectatorial conception of vision with an embodied ontology that accords transcendance to the depth of the visual world. A second section,`fold', engages with Deleuze's rendition of Leibniz's philosophy as a means of both critiquing and supplementing Merleau-Ponty's account. Through these analyses I seek to rewrite the visual gaze upon landscape by exploring the ontological processes (processes of depth, processes of folding) which afford its actualisation. I thus seek to produce an account of gazing as an eventful actualisation and distribution of selves and landscape, through attending to the depths and folds of an immanent plane, from which distinctive and durable selves and landscapes arise and with which they are always in relation. Here, landscape is not a way of seeing the world. Nor is it`something seen', an external, inert surface. Rather, the term`landscape' names the materialities and sensibilities with which we see.

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Section: Depth As Transcendantmentioning

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Depths and Folds: On Landscape and the Gazing Subject

2006

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“…As a way forward, in this section I posit future directions for landscape studies. I extend previous work that has sought to contextualize landscapes historically while also giving voice to the personal experiences that texture them (eg, della Dora, 2008;Foster, 1998;Maddrell, 2007;Merriman, 2006;Smith et al, 2009). Following Malabou and Bruno Latour, I argue landscapes are plastic mosaics that are defined, yet malleable.…”

Section: Moving Forward With Landscape Studiesmentioning

confidence: 65%

Plastic Eternities and the Mosaic of Landscape

Dyke

2013

Environ Plan D

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In recent years nonrepresentational theory has been applied with increasing frequency to landscape studies. This paper responds to this trend in two ways. First, through a close reading of John Wylie and Mitch Rose's writings, I critique the application of nonrepresentational theory to landscape interpretation. While nonrepresentational theory has, crucially, highlighted the importance of performativity, affect, excess, and relationality, it has been imperfectly translated to landscape studies. Landscape studies grounded in nonrepresentational theory overburden the landscape with philosophical and theoretical propositions, which has the effect of exonerating landscapes from their temporal, spatial, and visual circumstances. Second, drawing mainly on the work of Catherine Malabou and Bruno Latour, I suggest that different metaphors and concepts are needed to improve landscape studies: plasticity and a revamped, historical account of relationality. The aim of this paper is to establish a means of visualizing the dynamics of landscape and their historical mutability, with the intention of producing readings that are more ecumenical, and avoid the theoretical reductionism found in current nonrepresentational accounts of landscape.

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“…These biographical connections represent something of the fluxes, feelings, affinities, and serendipities of subjective encounter that scramble established codes for dispassionate (to say nothing of social constructivist) modes of landscape inquiry. There are companionships öways of being there and sharing in landscapesöstill only seldom articulated as phenomena actually formative of our inquiries (Cameron, 2001;DeLyser, 2003;Foster, 1998;Matless, 2000a;Schein, 2001). But, learning by finding expressive modes of researching need not mean that experience is circumscribed, or singular, to those who have had opportunity to inhabit that territory.…”

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“…What wells up is a biotic account of the herd enrolling winds, stones, tors, trees, and mosses into a territory of patterned ground. What we might come to know as`biogeographies' are certainly foreshadowed by earlier humanist projections of holism in the discipline (Buttimer and Seamon 1980); they find points of rapport in a revivified literature on animal geographies (Matless, 2000b;Philo and Wilbert, 2000;Wolch and Emel, 1995;1998) and yet more cross-references in the current prospectus for geography's recalibration as an emerging life science (Spencer and Whatmore, 2001). The last of these disciplinary developments, a relational world of networks and hybrids, opens out categories of organisation and classification, and points us towards the manifold settings where qualities of being animal, being human, and being machine are relentlessly reenacted (Whatmore, 2002).…”

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Herding Memories of Humans and Animals

2006

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The study of a herd can mark the point where ethnography and ethology meet. Here versions of`the social' hinge on relations between herders and herd. Anthropologists tell us this much. But can our understanding of a herd be extended by an awareness of the diverse geographies that coexisting humans and animals create? Or, to shift the direction of approach: what does a herd know, or care, for geography? Possible responses to these questions can identify the abstract and the conceptual in empirical encounters with occupied local habitats. The same responses benefit from mustering together the different registers of memory that humans and animals retain from their day-today operations, or leave behind as signs of erstwhile presence. Here, practical expressions of movement and settling are understood as one means to open out the herd's territory, and to present its meanings through the drawing together of earthy and worldly relations. This paper is an exercise in their possible narration. At its close, the animation of the herd offers occasion for comment on matters of conduct, form, and style in a longer heritage of landscape study. But you have not studied with your own eyes the long upward sweep of the land that lifts sheer at the northern corries and then once on high stretches out across the granite expanse of the mountain plateau, nor the stands of pines that survive on the lower slopes, nor the sharply incised ravine that must be crossed to reach the grazing grounds. And, since I cannot take for granted that you know

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John Buchan’s ‘Hesperides’: landscape rhetoric and the aesthetics of bodily experience on the South African Highveld, 1901-1903

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Depths and Folds: On Landscape and the Gazing Subject

Depths and Folds: On Landscape and the Gazing Subject

Plastic Eternities and the Mosaic of Landscape

Herding Memories of Humans and Animals

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