Fear and Fascination: Anti-Landscapes between Material Resistance and Material Transcendence

Werner Bigell

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Fear and Fascination: Anti-Landscapes between Material Resistance and Material Transcendence

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Pages:: 129–148

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211697_009

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This article examines the mechanisms that turn landscapes into anti-landscapes: projection, material interference, and ideological contradiction. Landscape and anti-landscape are dialectical twins; whereas landscape affirms cultural and aesthetic values, anti-landscape negates them through material resistance. This negation creates a sense of material transcendence, the aesthetic appeal through understanding that the world is larger than the projections onto it. Negation and material transcendence is the common denominator for anti-landscapes such as the exclusion zone around Chernobyl and the “feral houses” of the American suburb.

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The Anti-Landscape

Series: Studies in Environmental Humanities, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401211697

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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