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Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira: Towards a Phanerology of Images: Karl Blossfeldt and the Skin of the World
Towards a Phanerology of Images: Karl Blossfeldt and the Skin of the World
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Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira

Towards a Phanerology of Images: Karl Blossfeldt and the Skin of the World

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  • architecture
  • ecology
  • aesthetics

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Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira

Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira teaches Visual Culture, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. He is Associate Professor at the Chair Art in Space and Time at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH – Zurich. He hold his PhD in Literature Theory and Comparative Literature from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG (Brazil) and École Normale Supérieure – ENS, Paris. He is associate member of the Center for History and Art Theory – CEHTA, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS, Paris. His books are O mundo a zero. Drummond, Haroldo de Campos, Ricardo Aleixo e as máquinas do mundo (editora da UFMG, 2024); Beschweigen, Bezeichnen Mira Schendel und die Schrift unmittelbaren Erlebens (Diaphanes, 2020); A invenção de uma pele: Nuno Ramos em obras (2018). He edited the books: Antropofagias: um livro manifesto! Práticas da devoração a partir de Oswald de Andrade (Peter Lang, 2020); Poesia-Crítica-Tradução: Haroldo de Campos e a Educação dos Sentidos (Peter Lang, 2022).
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Entangled with the interconnected logics of coloniality and modernity, the landscape idea has long been a vehicle for ordering human-nature relations. Yet at the same time, it has also constituted a utopian surface onto which to project a space-time ‘beyond’ modernity and capitalism. Amid the advancing techno-capitalization of the living and its spatial supports in transgenic seed monopolies, fracking and deep sea drilling, biopiracy, geo-engineering, aesthetic-activist practices have offered particular kinds of insight into the epistemological, representational, and juridical framings of the natural environment. This book asks in what ways have recent bio and eco-artistic turns moved on from the subject/object ontologies of the landscape-form? Moving from botanical explorations of early modernity, through the legacies of mid-twentieth century landscape design, up to artistic experimental recodings of New World nature in the 1960s and 1970s and to present struggles for environmental rights and against the precarization of the living, the critical essays and visual contributions included in Natura attempt to push thinking past fixed landscape forms through interdisciplinary encounters that encompass analyses of architectural sites and artworks; ecocritical perspectives on literary texts; experimental place-making practices; and the creation of material and visual ecologies that recognise the agency of non-human worlds.