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Jill H. Casid: Necrolandscaping
Necrolandscaping
(p. 237 – 264)

Jill H. Casid

Necrolandscaping

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  • art theory
  • cultural critic
  • architecture
  • aesthetics
  • ecology

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Jill H. Casid

is Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she founded and served as the first director of the Center for Visual Cultures. A historian, theorist, and practicing artist, she is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (2015), and the edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (2014). Recent essays and articles have appeared in Women and Performance, TDR, the Journal of Visual Culture, Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean, The Philosophical Salon, and Architecture is All Over. She is currently completing the two-book project Form at the Edges of Life.
Jens Andermann (ed.), Lisa Blackmore (ed.), ...: Natura: Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape

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.