Eerie Landscape Materialities. On Vanishing Land by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton
Eerie Landscape Materialities. On Vanishing Land by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a description and analysis of Justin Barton and Mark Fisher’s audio essay On Vanishing Land. It discusses the theoretical and conceptual framework proposed by Fisher in his The Weird and the Eerie (2016) and looks at their collective work from the perspective of a reversal of the “figure and background” trope associated with the tradition of artistic renderings of various landscapes. It is argued that the very format of the audio essay, together with the notion of the eerie, serve as particularly important modalities in attempting to render the material specificities of the landscapes and in recording the way in which landscape may “act” on individuals. The text further emphasises the material intricacies of the audio essay in various media formats and concludes with a recognition of the political potential of the form and content.

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