Tag: Visual Culture
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Ramas, piedras y agencia anidada en la fotografía de la vida silvestre
in EssaysRae Ferner Rose propone leer estas fotografías de la vida silvestre como una vía para explorar la agencia no humana. Las instantáneas de los nidos de aves jardineras y de peces globo, en particular, capturan la artesanía colaborativa tanto de la “vida silvestre” como del fotógrafo.
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Sticks, Stones, and Nested Agency in Wildlife Photography
in EssaysRae Ferner Rose uses wildlife photography as a lens into nonhuman agency. Snapshots of bowerbirds and pufferfish nests in particular capture the collaborative craft of both “wildlife” and photographer.
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Exploring Oaxaca’s Peri-Urban Landscape
In this photo essay, Joseph Heathcott captures edge ecologies and life in between at Oaxaca’s urban-rural interface.
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Making Meaning in an Age of Data: A Conversation with Heather Houser
in PodcastsIn conversation with Min Hyoung Song, Heather Houser considers how stories and art make overwhelming scientific data meaningful—and how they trouble, interrogate, and transform it.
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Painting an Empire: Landscapes of Napoleon’s Dreams in Haiti
in EssaysFrench landscape painting during the Haitian Revolution lays bare colonial concern for controlling both people and the environment.
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Bizarre Beauty… in the Background: Video Game Nature in Final Fantasy XII
in EssaysCan playing video games encourage gamers to think differently about their relationships to the non-human world? A close study of Final Fantasy XII shows how video games represent nature—and argues for ways they could be improved from an environmentalist standpoint.