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Violence, Part 1
  • ISSN: 2040-3682
  • E-ISSN: 2040-3690

Abstract

This article takes inspiration from Allan Sekula’s remarks on photography, as well as his own ‘geography lessons’, to interrogate how photographs of ‘man-altered landscapes’ give visual form to the problems of temporality, natural history and historical agency that mark life in the Capitalocene. It proposes that combining Fredric Jameson’s analysis of the way that capital congeals ‘quantities of the past’ into dead labour with Andreas Malm’s diagnosis of our ‘warming condition’ allows us both to diagnose and counter the temptation to a sublime inhumanity that so often haunts contemporary panoramas of ecological devastation.

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