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GeoGraphical aesthetics For Deborah and Sallie, thank you. Geographical aesthetics imagining space, staging encounters edited by harriet hawkins Royal Holloway, University of London, UK elizabeth strauGhan University of Glasgow, UK © harriet hawkins and elizabeth straughan, and the contributors 2015 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. harriet hawkins and elizabeth straughan have asserted their right under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. published by ashgate publishing limited ashgate publishing company wey court east 110 cherry street union road suite 3-1 Farnham burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, Gu9 7pt usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the british library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Geographical aesthetics : imagining space, staging encounters / by harriet hawkins and elizabeth straughan. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4094-4801-3 (hardback) -- isbn 978-1-4094-4802-0 (ebook) -- isbn 978- 1-4094-7380-0 (epub) 1. Geographical perception. 2. aesthetics. i. hawkins, harriet, 1980- editor of compilation, author. ii. straughan, elizabeth, editor of compilation, author. G71.5.G44 2015 910.01--dc23 2014037307 isbn: 9781409448013 (hbk) isbn: 9781409448020 (ebk – pDF) isbn: 9781409473800 (ebk – epub) printed in the united kingdom by henry ling limited, at the Dorset press, Dorchester, Dt1 1hD Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiii Introduction: For Geographical Aesthetics 1 Section one towardS a LiveLy aeStheticS 19 1 On Aisthêsis, ‘Inner Touch’ and the Aesthetics of the Moving Body 35 Mark Paterson 2 Anime Cosplay as Love-Sublimation 53 Paul Kingsbury 3 Activist Pedagogies Through Rancière’s Aesthetic Lens 71 Naomi Millner 4 Relational Urban Interventions 91 Ashley Dawkins and Alex Loftus Section two aeSthetic encounterS 105 5 Comforting Others: Sociality and the Ethical Aesthetics of Being-Together 121 Danny McNally 6 The Artifice of Landscape: Photomontage in the Work of Beate Gütschow 137 Alex Vasudevan 7 Biostratigraphy and Disability Art: An Introduction to the Work of Jon Adams 165 Hannah Macpherson (with Jon Adams) vi Geographical Aesthetics 8 Death Drive: Final Tracings 181 James Riding 9 Aesthetic Regard for Nature in Environmental and Land Art 197 Emily Brady Section three tiSSueS and textureS: reimagining the SurficiaL 211 10 The Mantle of the Earth: Surfaces, Landscape and Aesthetics 225 Veronica della Dora 11 Thinking With/As a Frog: Art, Science and the Performative Image 251 Deborah Dixon 12 The Contested Aesthetics of Farmed Animals: Visual and Genetic Views of the Body 267 Lewis Holloway and Carol Morris Conclusion: Reimagining Geoaesthetics 283 Index 299 List of Figures 2.1 Cosplaying with costumes and props 58 2.2 Playing dead? 61 2.3 The ‘Uma uma dance’ 64 2.4 The glomp circle 65 5.1 Vyner Street (1), Hackney, during the First Thursdays event 122 5.2 Vyner Street (2), Hackney, during the First Thursdays event 123 5.3 Crowd outside a gallery on Redchurch Street 124 6.1 Beate Gütschow, RS#1 (2006) 5 minutes, HD video transferred to PAL video 138 6.2 Beate Gütschow, RS#2 (2006) 5 minutes, HD video transferred to PAL video 138 6.3 Beate Gütschow, LS#17 (2003) C-print, 116cm × 169cm 149 6.4 Beate Gütschow, LS#7 (1999) C-print, 164cm × 116cm 151 6.5 Beate Gütschow, LS#11 (2001) C-print, 146cm × 116cm 152 6.6 Beate Gütschow, S#16 (2006) LightJet Print, 142cm × 122cm 159 7.1 Jon Adams, Love, Hate, Desire: ‘Goose on the Hill’ exhibition (2009) 166 7.2 Jon Adams, The note making process for final biostratigraphy – an example from the London Olympic 2012 opening ceremony 167 7.3 Jon Adams, My mapping day – A ‘Look About’ Biostratigraphy 168 7.4 Jon Adams, A ‘Look About’ Fossil Collection 169 8.1 Photograph of a poem and flowers left at the memorial stone 190 8.2 Photograph of poem left at graveside 192 10.1 Scene of the Annunciation on the curtain of the iconostasis of the main church in Filotheou Monastery, Mount Athos 230 10.2 Reproduction of the Ebstorfer mappa mundi (1234) 234 10.3 Martin Waldseemuller, Universalis cosmographia (1507) 235 10.4 Johannes Stradanus, Frontispiece of Americae retectio (1592) 236 10.5 Domenico Ghirlandaio, Madonna della misericordia protecting members of the Vespucci family, Florence (1472) 237 10.6 Frontispiece of Strabo’s Geography (1707) 238 10.7 Vincenzo Coronelli, Regno di Negroponte, in Isolario dell’atlante veneto (1696) 239 viii Geographical Aesthetics 11.1 Twelve stages in the sequence from the head of a frog to the head of a primitive man. Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel after Lavater (1797) 256 11.2 Untitled, appended plate to the 1884 edition of Du Bois- Reymond’s Untersuchungen uber thierische Elektricitat 260 Notes on Contributors Jon Adams is Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and Associate artist with the New Theatre Royal. He was awarded a RSA Fellowship in 2012 and serves on the Arts Council South West Area Council. He graduated from Kings College, University of London with a degree in geology. After working as a scientific and archaeological book illustrator his work became more conceptual, weaving together science and art, digital and analogue, his synaesthesia and autobiographical experiences. Emily Brady is Professor of Environment and Philosophy at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests move between contemporary and historical approaches in aesthetics and environmental philosophy, and include environmental aesthetics; environmental ethics and aesthetic experience and value. She has served as President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics for three years and is author of Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (Edinburgh University Press 2003) and The Sublime in Modern Philosophy (Cambridge University Press 2013). Ashley Dawkins is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Kings College London. He is conducting research on the politics of urban art interventions in Chicago, New York and London. He has published his work in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Veronica della Dora is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her main research interests include: cultural and historical geography; landscape studies; history of cartography; sacred geographies; science studies; Byzantine and post-Byzantine studies; Eastern Mediterranean studies. She is author of Imagining Mt Athos (University of Virgina Press 2011) and co- editor of High Places (IB Tauris 2008). Deborah Dixon is a Professor of Human Geography at University of Glasgow. Her research is driven by an interest in the ideas, concepts, ethics and politics of both poststructuralist and feminist theories, but is very much grounded in case study analysis of monstrous, media and marginal geographies, topics which overlap time and again in often unexpected ways. In her work she explores the conceptual and methodological possibilities afforded by these theoretical framings. She is the co- editor of Feminist Geopolitics: At the Sharp Edge (Routledge 2013).

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Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding both to the increasing calls from within geography to develop a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in conceptual and empirical questions around ge
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