#mediance

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(…) Environment as connection. It's in the limits of this connection, therefore in its médiance and not like such, that the environment exists for the society. In the western culture (only after Renaissance), is particularly what we call landscape; nevertheless, landscape is not that of the mediations, between the other, that constitute the médiance. All the representations and the human practices depend, since all, to a title or to another one, are mediations between society and its environment. (…) Therefore landscape is characterized, jointly, from médiance and historicity. It's not completely something completely universal. To the same manner in which the landscape of our individual experience, in an instant and in an any place, is necessarily limited from a certain horizon, landscape, generally, is limited by the horizon of a certain sight of the world, topical of a certain context, of a certain culture and of a certain period.

Augustin Berque, Come parlare di paesaggio? in Paolo D'Angelo (ed.), Estetica e paesaggio, (Il Mulino, 2009)