Abstract

This paper proposes a path in the investigation of our global condition through the perspective provided by the concept of “landscape”, as it was developed by the phenomenological tradition, in particular by Erwin Straus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. For the aim of this research, I consider how the landscape operates a disorientation of the modern conception of spatiality. In fact, if the modernity dominated the space by a principle of productivity, the landscape makes visible the lived space of corporeity, of sensation, of movement and perception. In this regard, I will examine how the global landscapes also operate such a decentration, showing us a condition of fragility, of a common mortality, by a pervasivity that involves our own bodies and their performativity in a common flesh.