The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World
The text proposes an interpretation of the category of assemblage starting from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's reflection in The Mushroom at the End of the World. The hypothesis we suggest is that through the theoretical figure of assemblage, as image, place, concept, space of livability, Tsing along...
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| description | The text proposes an interpretation of the category of assemblage starting from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's reflection in The Mushroom at the End of the World. The hypothesis we suggest is that through the theoretical figure of assemblage, as image, place, concept, space of livability, Tsing along the multi-voiced itinerary of her text deconstructs the linearity and compactness of certain landscape histories. In doing so, Tsing resorts both to a precise and pointed critique of the idea of progress - especially thanks to W. Benjamin - as well as the search for a modelling of the landscape that has above all in the indeterminate and in chance encounters the reasons for its being. In Tsing's text, the assemblage becomes both the concrete experience of a place and a way of observing that allows an aesthetic reading and a critique of Landscape and cultural heritage to be combined. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44d1091af81f4b76b0d2c520c15d0c9a2023-04-19T07:42:04ZengUniversity of BolognaEuropean Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes2612-04962023-04-015211512610.6092/issn.2612-0496/1609514445The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the WorldIvano Gorzanelli0University of BolognaThe text proposes an interpretation of the category of assemblage starting from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's reflection in The Mushroom at the End of the World. The hypothesis we suggest is that through the theoretical figure of assemblage, as image, place, concept, space of livability, Tsing along the multi-voiced itinerary of her text deconstructs the linearity and compactness of certain landscape histories. In doing so, Tsing resorts both to a precise and pointed critique of the idea of progress - especially thanks to W. Benjamin - as well as the search for a modelling of the landscape that has above all in the indeterminate and in chance encounters the reasons for its being. In Tsing's text, the assemblage becomes both the concrete experience of a place and a way of observing that allows an aesthetic reading and a critique of Landscape and cultural heritage to be combined.https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/16095assemblagelandscapecitiesprogresshistory |
| spellingShingle | Ivano Gorzanelli The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes assemblage landscape cities progress history |
| title | The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World |
| title_full | The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World |
| title_fullStr | The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World |
| title_short | The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World |
| title_sort | assemblage as aesthetic place a reading between aesthetics and the anthropocene of the mushroom at the end of the world |
| topic | assemblage landscape cities progress history |
| url | https://cpcl.unibo.it/article/view/16095 |
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