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Alpine Topographies of Loss: On the Media Temporality of Glaciers

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dc.creatorSchrey, Dominik
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-26T13:26:24Z
dc.date.available2021-05-26T13:26:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractArguing that the materiality of Alpine glaciers was linked to notions of emergency and greed long before discussions of anthropogenic climate change, this article focuses, on the one hand, on complex tempor(e)alities of glaciers, and, on the other hand, on the question of how they and the fact of their disappearance become aesthetic. Of particular interest are thus not only the historical bodies of knowledge trying to make sense of glaciers in various ways but also artistic projects that reflect upon their vanishing during what has come to be known as the Anthropocene. To that end, the article first looks at the local knowledge about Alpine glaciers at the time around 1850, now considered the tipping point of global glacier mass balance. Based on three case studies, the article then discusses the different ways and dimensions in which glaciers of the European Alps are becoming media and how techniques of surveying and mapping transformed them into rationalized objects of scientific interest, increasingly devoid of agency. Countering the hegemonic view of glaciers as pervasive yet remote icons of climate change and symbolic thermometers of a planet in crisis, a more complex perspective is presented, building on recent discussions in media studies.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15852
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/16689
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe Northeast Modern Language Association
dc.publisher.placeBuffalo
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2691-1566
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Journal of Media Art Study and Theory
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subjectKlimawandelde
dc.subjectGeologiede
dc.subjectMediatisierungde
dc.subjectAnthropozände
dc.subjectSemiotikde
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectgeologyen
dc.subjectmediatizationen
dc.subjectanthropoceneen
dc.subjectsemioticsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleAlpine Topographies of Loss: On the Media Temporality of Glaciersen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:00:36
local.source.epage172
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleMedia, Materiality, and Emergency
local.source.spage148
local.source.volume1

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