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Absence Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/12/1/167/806248/167searle.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 31 March 2022 ADAM SEARLE Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK ngaging the surrealist landscapes of René Magritte is an equivocal endeavor. Les E Charmes du Paysage (The Charms of Landscape; fig. 1) is an invitation into the plural- ity of absence. Through an explicit presentation of the absence of landscape, however that may be understood, we find ourselves in the presence of our own conjuring. The trace left by Magritte speaks to us in a manifold manner, an exemplification of absence’s ontological power. It is a divergent opportunity found through the circumstantial con- stellation of what is not that indulges a (re)thinking of what has been and what may be. In an epoch characterized by its losses—mass extinction, environmental degradation, Indigenous livelihoods—I propose taking seriously the affective force of absence to accommodate a politics more attuned to the ethical affordances they bring about. This attentiveness to that which we do not or cannot completely know poses a methodologi- cal interjection which, at its heart, speaks to the fragility of the earth itself and all of its inhabitants. Absence is not synonymous with loss. It speaks to much more: what http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Humanities Duke University Press

Absence

Searle, Adam
Environmental Humanities , Volume 12 (1) – May 1, 2020
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/12/1/167/806248/167searle.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 31 March 2022 ADAM SEARLE Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK ngaging the surrealist landscapes of René Magritte is an equivocal endeavor. Les E Charmes du Paysage (The Charms of Landscape; fig. 1) is an invitation into the plural- ity of absence. Through an explicit presentation of the absence of landscape, however that may be understood, we find ourselves in the presence of our own conjuring. The trace left by Magritte speaks to us in a manifold manner, an exemplification of absence’s ontological power. It is a divergent opportunity found through the circumstantial con- stellation of what is not that indulges a (re)thinking of what has been and what may be. In an epoch characterized by its losses—mass extinction, environmental degradation, Indigenous livelihoods—I propose taking seriously the affective force of absence to accommodate a politics more attuned to the ethical affordances they bring about. This attentiveness to that which we do not or cannot completely know poses a methodologi- cal interjection which, at its heart, speaks to the fragility of the earth itself and all of its inhabitants. Absence is not synonymous with loss. It speaks to much more: what

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Environmental Humanities – Duke University Press

Published: May 1, 2020

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