The Image in the Mirror

Thinking Landscape

“…The understanding, or rather, the key to grasping something from unclarity resides in the possibility of keeping more than one cause together. The third point in common is, thus, the 'mixture' (Coccia 2018). As Antonio came to tell us, with some emotion even, he truly believed that first the disruption and then the re-establishing of his body equilibria was entangled with the diffusion of a general condition.…”

“…This entanglement between invisibility and indeterminacy builds up the epistemological dimension of the crisis. A different set of concepts has been enacted on the landscape by those who learnt how to 'act in mix-ture' or to become 'sensible' (Coccia 2016;). Antonio's ethnographic case supports the idea that we need to include in our understanding of the environmental crisis the knowledge unfolding from unseen structures (Ginzburg 1986).…”

“…4"Salento, long live ignorance" order to turn around the ignorance guiding the construction of reason. If Emanuele Coccia sees Reason as a sense(Coccia 2016), this is because the common definition of ignorance is strictly tied to sensitivity. Biosecurity measures, for example, perpetrate a definition of ignorance built on the modern construction of Nature, where the landscape's elements are classified and respond to the cause-effect principle, statistically measured in an aseptic space.…”