nature culture

“Capitalist Nature: Production and Modernity” – regular-speak layman’s definition forthcoming

1. “linear perspective”
2. “realist painting (freezing place from a particular point of view and locating the viewer outside of the picture and thus outside of nature and history)”
3. “objectification of landscape as vista with a concomitant politics of vision-a scopic regime”
4. “initiation of surveillance and monitoring on a large scale (Foucault’s [1979] panopticism)”
5. “totalizing male gaze which objectifies landscape and women in particular ways”
6. as in landscape art, nature takes on “a passive role deprived of agency under a totalizing perspective that create[s] the impression of unity”

Escobar, Arturo (1999). After Nature: Steps to an anti-essentialist political ecology [and comments and replies]. Current Anthropology, 40, 1-30

Myths of Nature in post-WWII National Geographic Car Advertisements by Shwandel N. Fraser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.