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Mediascape / Landscape in Nineteenth-Century North America: Affect Studies, Media Studies and the Challenge of Locating What Matters
Mediascape / Landscape in Nineteenth-Century North America: Affect Studies, Media Studies and the Challenge of Locating What Matters
Leaves of Grass
Cathy Berg, CanadaThe Lord God Made Them All (2007)
mapping media’s materiality across multiple grounds:
• economic• corporeal• rhetorical• geopolitical• geophysical
Syllabary Matters
Steve Rowell, Uncanny Sensing, Remote
Valleys
“Dead Telegraph Cable Landing at Bay Roberts, Newfoundland 2012
Steve Rowell’s Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys (2013-) is aimed at investigating ecology and the “post-natural landscape” in the anthropocene.
Methodological Challenges
How do media materialize affect? (as they locate emotion across bodies and surfaces)
How does affect mediatize matter?(as it animates what we often consider inanimate surfaces and elements)
Timothy H. O’Sullivan‘The Pyramid & Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada’1867
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