...OF THE FOREST
This chapter from the book "The Word for World is Still Forest" Intercalations4 questions the general understanding of Amazon Rain Forest as a purely natural place. The view of the west European colonial mindset tends to see this area as a resourceful setting where non-complex cultures live. This conceptualisation underestimates the significant cultures of indigenous tribes and their intimate interaction with non-human entities. With the help of satellite vision and consultancy of the Forensic Architecture, the research transcribed into this text aims to make visible these cultures and also critical methods for de-colonising Amazon, the city and our mids.
Images of Nature – Landscapes of Violence
In a ground-breaking study published in 1989, Balée estimated that at least 11.8 percent of Amazonia is composed of anthropogenic forests. This is the equivalent of imagining a territory larger than France covered by an extremely biodiverse environment engineered b…
This chapter from the book "The Word for World is Still Forest" Intercalations4 questions the general understanding of Amazon Rain Forest as a purely natural place. The view of the west European colonial mindset tends to see this area as a resourceful setting where non-complex cultures live. This conceptualisation underestimates the significant cultures of indigenous tribes and their intimate interaction with non-human entities. With the help of satellite vision and consultancy of the Forensic Architecture, the research transcribed into this text aims to make visible these cultures and also critical methods for de-colonising Amazon, the city and our mids.
Images of Nature – Landscapes of Violence
In a ground-breaking study published in 1989, Balée estimated that at least 11.8 percent of Amazonia is composed of anthropogenic forests. This is the equivalent of imagining a territory larger than France covered by an extremely biodiverse environment engineered b…
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