Landscape after a Transformation

The article reconstructs the modern understanding of a landscape intensely transformed by the mining industry. Its methodological inspiration comes from non-representational theories, which emphasize such factors as embodied experience, senses, and affects, treating landscape as something more than a visual representation. The author analyzes documentaries, photographs, and reportages. They allow her to highlight the complexity and multidirectionality of landscape transformation processes in the Anthropocene, especially the interdependencies between geology and atmosphere, exploitation and its material effects and affects. They indicate the non-obvious ontology of the landscape after transformation, which is simultaneously post-natural and post-human.

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This article reconstructs the understanding of a modern landscape that has been significantly altered by the mining industry. Drawing inspiration from non-representational theories, the author emphasizes embodied experience, senses, and affects as important factors in the perception of landscape beyond visual representation. By analyzing documentaries, photographs, and reportages, the author highlights the complexity and multidirectionality of landscape transformation processes in the Anthropocene, particularly the interdependencies between geology and atmosphere, exploitation and its material effects and affects. These findings reveal the non-obvious ontology of the post-transformed landscape, which is simultaneously post-natural and post-human.