Elemental landscapes

"Elemental landscapes." Journal of Landscape Architecture, 18(2-3), pp. 4–5

Notes

1 David Macauley, Elemental Philosophy: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water As Environmental Ideas (New York; Suny Press, 2015), 15.

2 Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1999). Original French edition L’eau et les rêves: Essai sur l’imagination de la matière (Le livre de poche, 1942). Other elemental essays by Bachelard comprise The Psychoanalysis of Fire (La psychanalyse du feu, 1938), Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (L’air et les songes, 1943), Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority (La terre et les reveries du repos, 1946), Earth and Reveries of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (La terre et les reveries de la volonté, 1948).

3 Bachelard, Water and Dreams, op. cit. (note 2), 10–11.

4 See influential media scholar John Durham Peters, who in his book Marvellous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015) advances the idea that not only technological systems, but also natural habitats are mediators of meaning. See also the book series Elements edited by environmental humanities scholars Stacy Alaimo and Nicole Starosielski, ambitiously tracing the matters that constitute and permeate the environment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, dukeupress.edu/ series/Elements).

5 Les Carnets du paysage: Revue de projets d’art et écologie politique is the journal of the ENSP, École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles-Marseille. For an overview of the special issues on the elements, see: actes-sud.fr/recherche/catalogue/ collection/1561?keys=, accessed 25 December 2023.

6 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert (eds.), Elemental Ecocriticisim: Thinking With Earth, Air, Water, and Fire (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 13.

7 Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994), translated from the French by Maria Jolas and with a new foreword by John R. Stilgoe. French original: La poétique de l’espace (Paris: Collection Bibliotèque de philosophie contemporaine, 1957).

8 See call for papers on Wildfires included in this issue.

9 Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 422.

10 Karen Barad, ‘Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Constructivism Without Contradiction’, in: Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer Press, 1996), 177.

11 United Nations, ‘COP28 Talks Open in Dubai with Breakthrough Deal on Loss and Damage Fund’, 30 November 2023, news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1144162, accessed 28 December 2023.

12 James Morgan, ‘How to Win at Paper-Rock-Scissors’, BBC News, 2 May 2014.

13 David Lowenthal, ‘Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson’, Geographical Review 75/4 (1985), 518.