rituals in high mountains are not only visual or symbolic — they are sonic. chants, wind over ice, footsteps on snow, cracking glaciers.
i remember mircea eliade wrote about the sacred as a rupture in space — hierophany, axis mundi. but what if the axis melts? a critical cartography would map not only territory, but affect, loss, resonance. but how do we draw maps of disappearing sacredness, i wonder.
below, turner, the blue rigi (1842).
as sacred glaciers melt due to global warming , communities from the andes to the himalayas are forced to reinterpret rituals, deities, and their bond with the land. climate change isn’t only ecological—it’s cosmological.
how do we map loss beyond geography? can we trace emotional cartographies, shifting soundscapes, altered psychogeographies of melting mountains?
#landscape #territory #psychogeography #soundstudies #anthropologyofsound #emotionalcartography
the idea that sound, too, can be divided into the traced and the untraced. perhaps the real disturbance is not inaudibility, but untraceability.
#SoundStudies
#AcousticEcology
#SonicTheory
#CriticalTheory
#Philosophy
#MediaTheory
#Anthropology
#Listening
there is something quietly radical about the giardino dell’eden in venice. a garden everyone has seen from afar, but where almost no one has entered. a paradise that is withheld.
we assume that beauty must be accessible, documented, consumed. yet as herzog once suggested that some mountain peaks should remain unconquered, not everything needs to be reached. not every peak needs a flag.
#venice #wernerherzog #liminalspace #sacredspaces #edengarden #landscaping #psycogeography
infrastructure as promise
infrastracture as fracture
#jamesbenning #infrastructure #urbantheory #landscape #anthropocene
many years ago i shot these static frames on the argentine atlantic coast. the original sound was recorded on location, but a recorder error erased it. i rebuilt it from discarded audio found online. i would later return to this methodology many times.
chion wrote that, sound becomes magnetized by the image. even when fabricated and outside the diegesis, we hear it as real, synchronous, inherent, yet it may be not.
>> https://youtu.be/UkqTp5OB0Is?si=ktmPw0WFVxyEnszH
can we think of venice as a sentient ruin — not dead matter, but a third landscape where water, stone, tourism, memory and climate interweave?
what does it mean to inhabit a ruin that is still alive?
when does preservation become anticipation?
are we witnessing decay — or transition?
below, two vedute by canaletto and bellotto, but stripped of people, boats, and movement (modified with AI).
#venice #ruins #anthropocene #slowsublime #psychogeography #urbantheory #architecture #thirdlandscape
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