The demise and spectral return of consciousness in landscape research Grennan, Simon 2015, The demise and spectral return of consciousness in landscape research. In Meyer-Dinkgräfe, D (ed), Consciousness, theatre, literature and the arts 2015, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, Eng., pp.211-226. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The demise and spectral return of consciousness in landscape research Author(s) Grennan, Simon Title of book Consciousness, theatre, literature and the arts 2015 Editor(s) Meyer-Dinkgräfe, D Publication date 2015 Chapter number 19 Total chapters 25 Start page 211 End page 226 Total pages 16 Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing Place of Publication Newcastle, Eng. Keyword(s) Landscape Consciousness Antisubjectivism Painting Jacques Derrida Summary In this chapter, I analyse the changing conceptions of consciousness within landscape research from the late 20th century to the present. The 1980s and 1990s mark a critical shift in the framing of consciousness away from psychological, perceptual, or experiential perspectives towards an ontology of consciousness as an ungrounded linguistic signifier and an ideological trope. These perspectives do not attempt to problematise consciousness so much as disqualify it from discussion. In this way they can be characterised as anti-subjectivist or post subjectivist. I draw out the theoretical and critical foundations of these anti-subjectivist approaches (particularly Derrida's influence) as well as the subsequent opening out of the landscape idea in more recent discussion. While consciousness and subjectivity have, in various ways, been re-insinuated within more recent discussion, it remains nebulous and poorly theorised. Hence consciousness occupies a spectral presence in the landscape of landscape research. I use one of my own paintings, Dalek in Landscape, to presage the discussion and draw out the tensions at play between subjectivity, ideology and the landscape idea. Given the broader sway of antisubjectivist tendencies within the late 20th century cultural turn, landscape provides a useful point of comparison for thinking about the changing conceptions of consciousness and subjectivity in many other cognate fields and creative disciplines. ISBN 9781443897945 Language eng Field of Research 160403 Social and Cultural Geography Socio Economic Objective 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter ERA Research output type B Book chapter Copyright notice ©2015, Cambridge Scholars Publishing Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30078762 Document type: Book Chapter Collection: Faculty of Arts and Education Related Links Link Description   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 05 Oct 2015, 13:57:38 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2015, 04:07:34 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2015, 07:38:14 EST Tue, 10 Nov 2015, 12:18:40 EST Wed, 11 Nov 2015, 10:30:27 EST Mon, 16 Nov 2015, 13:37:34 EST Tue, 15 Nov 2016, 10:05:48 EST Tue, 15 Nov 2016, 10:06:19 EST Wed, 21 Dec 2016, 09:35:59 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 112 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 05 Oct 2015, 13:57:38 EST

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