Image Making as Post-Anthropocentric Interfaces

Resumen

The Blue Marble photograph (1972, captured from the Apollo 17 space mission, at a distanceof about 29,000 km), is commonly mentioned as a reference activator of the ecocriticaldebate, as well as a necessary technical mediator in the development of visual studies inrelation to the ecologist and environmental movements of the late twentieth century. For the firsttime in history the complete figure of the planetary shared home could be observed, whichappeared as a fragile and solitary entity, and even cold, alien and distant. But also, somehow,the visual unity of the globe contributed to transcending the local, regional or national identity,integrating it into a broader network of interaction and meaning, widely shared among multiplesubjects and objects, individuals and communities, governments, identities and territorialities.