Joanna Page
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Page |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Page |
| SIGNATURE | PAGE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7576-502X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonial Ecologies
Taxidermy and Natural History Dioramas
This chapter explores works that engage with the art and science of taxidermy and the construction of dioramas for museums of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While many artists have rejected taxidermy, given its association with cruelty toward animals, some have reclaimed the practice with the purpose of drawing attention to histories of animal objectification or rethinking human/animal relations. Recent recourses to taxidermy among …
Albums, Atlases, and their Afterlives
The first part of this chapter discusses art projects that intervene directly into the books and other materials created by travelling European naturalists of the later colonial period, whose conception of nature has so thoroughly shaped representations of Latin America’s landscapes. I explore projects by Rodrigo Arteaga (Chile), Antonio Bermúdez (Colombia), Claudia Coca (Peru), Tiago Sant’ana (Brazil), Oscar Santillán (Ecuador) and others that s…
Retracing Voyages of Science and Conquest
This chapter focuses on how artists and researchers have re-performed journeys and expeditions as a form of epistemological and aesthetic practice. This allows them to highlight changes and continuities in landscapes and relationships with the natural world, staging a complex interplay of temporalities. A major interdisciplinary and collaborative project discussed here is the Paraná Ra’anga expedition (Argentina, 2010), led by Graciela Silvestri …
Floras, Herbaria, and Botanical Illustration
New World plants were exhaustively catalogued in the floras and herbaria produced by the great scientific expeditions led by European naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada (1783–1816), directed by José Celestino Mutis. Species were primarily illustrated in a way that would allow their identification according to Linnaean taxonomies. Three contemporary artists from Colombia—Al…
Art for a Future Planet
Joanna Zylinska proposes a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which would resist the anthropocentric, technicist perspectives that shape apocalyptic narratives of climate crisis. Like Anna Tsing’s exploration of collaborative survival, Zylinska’s counterapocalypse is founded on the notion of precarity as a shared condition of life in the postindustrial world. This article focuses on art-science projects by Joaquín Fargas (Argentina) and Paul Rosero Co…
Planetary art beyond the human
A growing number of transdisciplinary art-science projects across the world are taking up the challenge of representing geological and cosmic time and of rendering visible, audible and tangible the powerful forces that shape the planet's systems. While art historians have often found the earth art movement to exemplify a new awareness of the geological impact of human activity on the planet, I argue that art may engender a more genuinely planetar…
Ethnobiographic Encounters and Interculturalism
Post-2001 filmmaking in Argentina has seen a marked rise in subjective and reflexive modes of documentary production, together with a renewed interest in representing marginalized subjects. This chapter discusses two films, Huellas y memoria de Jorge Prelorán (Fermín Rivera, 2009) and El Etnógrafo (Ulíses Rosell, 2012), which focus on the ethnographer’s work within indigenous communities. Page argues that these films move beyond the familiar post…
Science Fiction in Argentina
Gil Marino aided me in tracking down some of the more elusive materials that formed the basis of my research for the first chapter in particular.Closer to home, a symposium organized by Ian James in 2013 in Cambridge, "Science and Technology in Contemporary French Thought," opened up some fruitful paths of research.Gerald Moore was very generous in sharing his expertise on Stiegler with me, and I am also grateful to Ed King
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in Argentina consistently employ theories and models f…
Temporalities in Latin American Film
Temporalities in Latin American Film Joanna Page and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Is there anything distinctively Latin American about the construction of temporality in Latin American film? The existence of this special section would seem to beg the question. The reader might reasonably wonder if some unifying features will emerge from the diversity of films explored here—and our critical responses to them—that draw on common frameworks or bear witn…
Intellectuals, Revolution And Popular Culture
The nation as themise-en-scèneof film-making in Argentina
Crime, Capitalism, and Storytelling in Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada
The article explores the contribution made by Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada (1997) to the evolution of the crime novel in Argentina, investigating the ideological foundations of the novela negra as appropriated by Piglia. It confronts the question of the apparent incongruity presented by this sensationalist underworld tale in the context of Piglia's other, more literary and intellectual, narrative projects, finding a significant consistency in i…
Crime, Capitalism, and Storytelling in Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada
Writing as resistance in Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente
Ricardo Piglia
The question of the potential of fiction to engage with its historical moment is the theme par excellence of the post‐dictatorship era in Argentina, which is defined by a radical scepticism towards
Planetary art beyond the human
A growing number of transdisciplinary art-science projects across the world are taking up the challenge of representing geological and cosmic time and of rendering visible, audible and tangible the powerful forces that shape the planet's systems. While art historians have often found the earth art movement to exemplify a new awareness of the geological impact of human activity on the planet, I argue that art may engender a more genuinely planetar…
Intellectuals, Revolution And Popular Culture
The nation as themise-en-scèneof film-making in Argentina
Crime, Capitalism, and Storytelling in Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada
The article explores the contribution made by Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada (1997) to the evolution of the crime novel in Argentina, investigating the ideological foundations of the novela negra as appropriated by Piglia. It confronts the question of the apparent incongruity presented by this sensationalist underworld tale in the context of Piglia's other, more literary and intellectual, narrative projects, finding a significant consistency in i…
Crime, Capitalism, and Storytelling in Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada
Writing as resistance in Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente
Ricardo Piglia
The question of the potential of fiction to engage with its historical moment is the theme par excellence of the post‐dictatorship era in Argentina, which is defined by a radical scepticism towards
The nation as themise-en-scèneof film-making in Argentina
Intellectuals, Revolution And Popular Culture
Temporalities in Latin American Film
Temporalities in Latin American Film Joanna Page and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Is there anything distinctively Latin American about the construction of temporality in Latin American film? The existence of this special section would seem to beg the question. The reader might reasonably wonder if some unifying features will emerge from the diversity of films explored here—and our critical responses to them—that draw on common frameworks or bear witn…
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory in Argentina consistently employ theories and models f…
Ethnobiographic Encounters and Interculturalism
Post-2001 filmmaking in Argentina has seen a marked rise in subjective and reflexive modes of documentary production, together with a renewed interest in representing marginalized subjects. This chapter discusses two films, Huellas y memoria de Jorge Prelorán (Fermín Rivera, 2009) and El Etnógrafo (Ulíses Rosell, 2012), which focus on the ethnographer’s work within indigenous communities. Page argues that these films move beyond the familiar post…
Science Fiction in Argentina
Gil Marino aided me in tracking down some of the more elusive materials that formed the basis of my research for the first chapter in particular.Closer to home, a symposium organized by Ian James in 2013 in Cambridge, "Science and Technology in Contemporary French Thought," opened up some fruitful paths of research.Gerald Moore was very generous in sharing his expertise on Stiegler with me, and I am also grateful to Ed King
Planetary art beyond the human
A growing number of transdisciplinary art-science projects across the world are taking up the challenge of representing geological and cosmic time and of rendering visible, audible and tangible the powerful forces that shape the planet's systems. While art historians have often found the earth art movement to exemplify a new awareness of the geological impact of human activity on the planet, I argue that art may engender a more genuinely planetar…
Art for a Future Planet
Joanna Zylinska proposes a “feminist counterapocalypse,” which would resist the anthropocentric, technicist perspectives that shape apocalyptic narratives of climate crisis. Like Anna Tsing’s exploration of collaborative survival, Zylinska’s counterapocalypse is founded on the notion of precarity as a shared condition of life in the postindustrial world. This article focuses on art-science projects by Joaquín Fargas (Argentina) and Paul Rosero Co…
Decolonial Ecologies
Taxidermy and Natural History Dioramas
This chapter explores works that engage with the art and science of taxidermy and the construction of dioramas for museums of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While many artists have rejected taxidermy, given its association with cruelty toward animals, some have reclaimed the practice with the purpose of drawing attention to histories of animal objectification or rethinking human/animal relations. Recent recourses to taxidermy among …
Albums, Atlases, and their Afterlives
The first part of this chapter discusses art projects that intervene directly into the books and other materials created by travelling European naturalists of the later colonial period, whose conception of nature has so thoroughly shaped representations of Latin America’s landscapes. I explore projects by Rodrigo Arteaga (Chile), Antonio Bermúdez (Colombia), Claudia Coca (Peru), Tiago Sant’ana (Brazil), Oscar Santillán (Ecuador) and others that s…
Retracing Voyages of Science and Conquest
This chapter focuses on how artists and researchers have re-performed journeys and expeditions as a form of epistemological and aesthetic practice. This allows them to highlight changes and continuities in landscapes and relationships with the natural world, staging a complex interplay of temporalities. A major interdisciplinary and collaborative project discussed here is the Paraná Ra’anga expedition (Argentina, 2010), led by Graciela Silvestri …
Floras, Herbaria, and Botanical Illustration
New World plants were exhaustively catalogued in the floras and herbaria produced by the great scientific expeditions led by European naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada (1783–1816), directed by José Celestino Mutis. Species were primarily illustrated in a way that would allow their identification according to Linnaean taxonomies. Three contemporary artists from Colombia—Al…
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