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Gateways

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As I explored this chapter, I too was struck by the allure of the in-between-world, the gateway spaces that mark the transition from the mundane to the exotic. They seem to me to be imbued with a prosaic beauty, a wildness defiled by human touch. These landscapes have been corrupted by humanity's endeavour to tame, transform and control. They are less because of it. Less wild, less majestic, less free.

They are less, but they are also more. These landscapes act as access points to the more than human world, conduits that drive me onwards, forwards, pushing me into an environment I would otherwise never be permitted to encounter. The critical discussion speaks of the lens through which we perceive the world, the cameras and facebook feeds that engage and blinker our vision. I would argue that our eyesight is already blinkered. We see with human eyes, and so are restricted to human thoughts. It is only in these in-between places, where the human and the natural overlap, that we are truly able to access the wild. These micro-landscapes are our gateways.

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Contents of this path:

  1. Reconnecting with the beginning
  2. Koko's 'desirable' life
  3. Nature and Humanity
  4. Comment from Steph P
  5. Chapter 2 Wishful-Wistful thinking – A Poem
  6. Annotation - Jennifer (z5207747)
  7. Week 1 Research Project Comment — Erin Kasiou
  8. Intra-action between the poetic persona and the fly
  9. Nature and Us
  10. Intra-action between the poetic persona and the fly
  11. Nature and Us

Contents of this reply:

  1. Critical Reflection

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