amy cutler - the video book of orchids

I saw this work as a kind of geography, in the sense that geo-graphy means the mediation of the earth, and a shift from James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (1788) to media of the earth, i.e. the passage of different ways of mobilising the earth into and as media. I am inspired by the work of media archaeologists such as Jussi Parikka and Sean Cubitt, who both describe the articulation of the human precisely through our positioning of ourselves relative to the ecology of mediation: as Parikka writes, ‘The human being is primarily a “so-called Man” formed as an after effect of media technologies’.

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