The Assemblage as Aesthetic Place. A Reading between Aesthetics and the Anthropocene of The Mushroom at the End of the World
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Assemblage, Landscape, Cities, Progress, HistoryAbstract
The text proposes an interpretation of the category of assemblage starting from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's reflection in The Mushroom at the End of the World. The hypothesis we suggest is that through the theoretical figure of assemblage, as image, place, concept, space of livability, Tsing along the multi-voiced itinerary of her text deconstructs the linearity and compactness of certain landscape histories. In doing so, Tsing resorts both to a precise and pointed critique of the idea of progress - especially thanks to W. Benjamin - as well as the search for a modelling of the landscape that has above all in the indeterminate and in chance encounters the reasons for its being. In Tsing's text, the assemblage becomes both the concrete experience of a place and a way of observing that allows an aesthetic reading and a critique of Landscape and cultural heritage to be combined.
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalism Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
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