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Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II

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dc.creatorWickberg, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T12:41:46Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T12:41:46Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article studies the mapping of American natureculture in early Spanish colonial history by focusing on the critical aspects of media and anthropogenic altering of natural habitats as a discursive practice. The case of Francisco Hernández, General Physician of The Indies and director of the first scientific expedition 1570-1577, provides the base for a critical discussion of the onto-epistemology of the mapping impulse in early modern media. Hernández was sent out by Philip II to produce a natural history of the new world which resulted in over 20 volumes of text and illustrations. He also sent back a large number of plants and animals across the Atlantic. Simultaneously, the cosmographers at the Casa de Contratación in Seville were working on the same mapping project from a distance, using surveys to gather quantified data known as Relaciones geográficas. The decade of 1570-1580 in particular saw an intense activity of media practices of mapping the new world under the rule of Philip II, who became known as the paper king. He adopted the motto ‘Plus ultra’, meaning ‘further still’ in Latin, as an emblem of his transatlantic empire that came to reach over to the Pacific and the Philippines. The article draws on recent developments of media theory and environmental humanities and discusses how the colonial enterprise processed the geobotanical intervention associated with resource exploitation. It analyses the process, storage, and transmission of information and its material underpinnings and also draws on discussions of coloniality.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3447
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/plus-ultra-coloniality-and-the-mapping-of-american-natureculture-in-the-empire-of-philip-ii/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4216
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectcacaoen
dc.subjectcolonial Spainen
dc.subjectcolonialityen
dc.subjectColumbian exchangeen
dc.subjectearly modernen
dc.subjectenvironmenten
dc.subjecthistoryen
dc.subjectmappingen
dc.subjectnatureen
dc.subjectpineappleen
dc.subjecttomatoen
dc.subjectKakaode
dc.subjectKolonialismusde
dc.subjectSpaniende
dc.subjectKolumbiende
dc.subjectfrühe Modernede
dc.subjectUmweltde
dc.subjectGeschichtede
dc.subjectKartografiede
dc.subjectNaturde
dc.subjectKulturde
dc.subjectTomatede
dc.subjectAnanasde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personFrancisco Hernandez de Cordoba
dc.subject.personGonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
dc.titlePlus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip IIen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWickberg, Adam (2018): Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 7 (2), 205–227. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3447.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:03:57
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/plus-ultra-coloniality-and-the-mapping-of-american-natureculture-in-the-empire-of-philip-ii/
local.source.epage227
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage205
local.source.volume7
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