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Mediascape / Landscape in Nineteenth-Century North America: Affect Studies, Media Studies and the Challenge of Locating What Matters

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Mediascape / Landscape in Nineteenth -Century North America : . Affect Studies, Media Studies and the Challenge of Locating What Matters. Leaves of Grass. mapping media’s materiality across multiple grounds : e conomic c orporeal r hetorical g eopolitical g eophysical. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Mediascape / Landscape in Nineteenth-Century North America: Affect Studies, Media Studies and the Challenge of Locating What Matters

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Leaves of Grass

Cathy Berg, CanadaThe Lord God Made Them All (2007)

mapping media’s materiality across multiple grounds:

• economic• corporeal• rhetorical• geopolitical• geophysical

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Syllabary Matters

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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.

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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