Movement,memory, landscape: an excursion in non-representational thought |
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| Authors: | Kevin E McHugh |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0104, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper is an excursion in non-representational thought. The primacy of movement charges this creative geography. Movement
as sensation, thought, matter and memory crystallizes in ongoing assemblages (effects) we term selves and landscapes. This
movement ontology is animated by a stream of thought running through Bergson, Deleuze, and Massumi, and by Ingold’s temporality
of landscape. Memory is vital, as past (virtual) and present (actual) coexist, pushing forward in duration, the dynamic continuation
of movement and sensation. David Lynch’s film, The Straight Story, offers dramatic illustration of the entanglement of movement,
memory, and landscape. Landscape is emergent as relational lines of movement, an ongoing meshwork of practices and movement
signatures. Alvin Straight’s paced journey through Iowa on a John Deere lawn mower during autumn harvest is a road to reminiscence
and reconciliation, an American sublime. Lynch’s movement-images and soundscapes are sensorial undulations that illumine landscape
as movement of incorporation, ‘dwelling’ in the moment to moment, geographies of care. The take-home message is that we are
nothing more and nothing less than agents, next selves, ‘passing’ through. The collective trace of our ‘passings’ constitutes
the making and remaking of place.
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| Keywords: | Non-representational thought Movement Memory Landscape Sublime Geographies of care Next selves |
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