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Micro-Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Dis-emplacement: Spacetime in the anthropocene

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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.
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2. Athabasca Oil Sand (Matthew Gurney) Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.

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Reading the close reading in ‘Marginal Worlds’ made me think about anthropogenic environments that do not fit in the binary of nature and culture, places “caught in a sort of a halfway point between the two”. Worlds like this also exist beyond the marginal: yet they exist out of the limelight, where human existence, and our imaginations, do not dwell. It is as if they exist in a dark, other world, beyond our anthropocentric focus of urban and natural. The image is a flock of Canada Geese flying over a mine in the Athabasca, Canada oil sands. This environment is clearly unnatural, uninhabitable, yet it also subverts natureculture– there is no culture in this land, it is turned up and destroyed to preserve culture that is spatially far away. The mining companies have not thought of what this means for the geese. It is hard to imagine what these birds perceive of their world, it can only to them be an uneasy, hostile expanse. These sorts of images makes me think what will exist in these empty spaces, and what the significance of empty expanses like this are in the future.

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