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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.
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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: • economic • corporeal • rhetorical • geopolitical • geophysical Cathy Berg, Canada The Lord God Made Them All (2007)
Steve Rowell, Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys Steve Rowell’s Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys (2013-)is aimed at investigating ecology and the “post-natural landscape” in the anthropocene. “Dead Telegraph Cable Landing at Bay Roberts, Newfoundland 2012
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