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Entangled with the interconnected logics of coloniality and modernity, the landscape idea has long been a vehicle for ordering human-nature relations. Yet at the same time, it has also constituted a utopian surface onto which to project a space-time ´beyond´ modernity and capitalism. Amid the advancing techno-capitalization of the living and its spatial supports in transgenic seed monopolies, fracking and deep sea drilling, biopiracy, geo-engineering, aesthetic-activist practices have offered particular kinds of insight into the epistemological, representational, and juridical framings of the natural environment. This book asks in what ways have recent bio and eco-artistic turns moved on from the subject/object ontologies of the landscape-form? Moving from botanical explorations of early modernity, through the legacies of mid-twentieth century landscape design, up to artistic experimental recodings of New World nature in the 1960s and 1970s and to present struggles for environmental rights and against the precarization of the living, the critical essays and visual contributions included in Natura attempt to push thinking past fixed landscape forms through interdisciplinary encounters that encompass analyses of architectural sites and artworks; ecocritical perspectives on literary texts; experimental place-making practices; and the creation of material and visual ecologies that recognise the agency of non-human worlds.

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7 - 16 Introduction (Jens Andermann)17 - 30 The Cosmic Garden (Emanuele Coccia)31 - 50 Geomorphic Video (Ursula Biemann)51 - 60 The Return of a Lake (Maria Thereza Alves)61 - 72 Dissipating Darkness (Genaro Amaro Altamirano)73 - 110 Humboldtian Landscapes (Oliver Lubrich)111 - 134 Towards a Phanerology of Images: Karl Blossfeldt and the Skin of the World (Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira)135 - 144 Cabaré Chinelo, Manaus (Nuno Ramos)145 - 170 Aquatic Visions and Watery Sounds: Ruptures and Sutures in the Lacustrine Landscape of Modern Mexico City (Dayron Carrillo Morell)171 - 198 Colonizing Flow: The Aesthetics of Hydropower and Post-Kinetic Assemblages in the Orinoco Basin (Lisa Blackmore)199 - 222 Putrid, Precarious Landscapes: Province, Poverty, and the Poetics of Dispossession in Some Contemporary Latin American Works (µlvaro Fernández Bravo)223 - 236 Ciudad Abierta (Javier Correa, Victoria Jolly)237 - 264 Necrolandscaping (Jill H. Casid)265 - 286 Nach der Natur: Bio Art and Unspecific Lives (Jens Andermann)287 - 296 Contributors

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