Nature is design

Abstract

In the present article, published in French in the magazine Critique 2021/8, the author addresses the notion of landscape and the paradoxes of its construction, taking as reference the book The invention of rivers: Alexander’s eye and Ganga’s descent, by Dilip da Cunha, originally published in English by the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. Emanuele Coccia is associate professor of philosophy at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Among his publications translated into several languages, the most noteworthy are Sensible life (2010), Le bien dans les choses (2013 translation in press) and The life of plants (2016). He was co-editor, with Giorgio Agamben, of the monumental anthology Angeli. Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2009).