Re-Representing Mattering Landscapes: Outlining a New Method and an Emerging Culture

Located at the intersection of landscape-oriented disciplines and debates emerging from new materialist and posthumanist discourse on space, this paper investigates the agencies of evolving forms of representation in reorienting landscape ontologies and investigational practices toward the agency of matter and multispecies entanglements. It introduces the category of re-representation as a new form of mapping and examines its defining characteristics through the references of Gaiagraphy / Terra Forma and the Feral Atlas. Beyond isolated experiments, the paper argues that a culture of re-representation is beginning to emerge. Re-representations are conceptualized as multimodal assemblages that engage with situated landscapes as patchy zones of mattering processes. The concept of mattering processes emphasizes re-representations' capacity to explore and articulate what comes to matter in and as landscapes.