Historical Foundation of the Psychogeography The word psychogeography has appeared in this series before, almost in passing, one frame among several offered in the Foundation post as a way of naming what we were doing at Monte Pocilgais. It deserves a fuller reckoning of its own, because the essay that coined it turns out to … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 11: Psychogeography Before the Situationists: Debord, the Surrealist Root, and the Zones We Already Knew
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New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 10: Reading the Landscape with the Body
Movement, Thresholds and the Phenomenological Topography of Place Over the course of the New Landscape Holistic Project, a different understanding of landscape has gradually begun to take shape. What first presented itself as a study of unusual places has become something more precise: an inquiry into the way landscape is lived through the body, memory, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 10: Reading the Landscape with the Body
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
From Looking at Landscape to Being in Landscape There is a point in landscape experience at which looking is no longer enough. A place may first present itself through sight, through the slope of the land, the arrangement of stones, the form of a tree, the opening of a path or the quality of light, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
A Phenomenological Approach to Natural Landscape Cognition A landscape is never encountered as a neutral arrangement of forms. The moment we step into a place, perception is already entangled with memory, expectation, bodily state and imagination, so that a forest which feels protective to one visitor can feel oppressive to another, a mountain can evoke … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology: the Complete Serie Index
Magickal Landscape Phenomenology - Introduction On the south-facing slope of Monte Pocilgais, in the eastern Algarve hills between the parishes of São Brás de Alportel and Moncarapacho, there is a grey stone oval approximately fifty metres long and twenty metres wide. The stones are materially foreign to the local geology. Old carob trees and stone … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology: the Complete Serie Index
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