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Nomos and Cosmos
Adrian Lahoud
The 1620 frontispiece of Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna depicts a sailing vessel passing through the Straits of Gibraltar between the fabled Pillars of Hercules into the open sea. The vessel is leaving the waters of the Mediterranean for the Atlantic. The scene depicts the moment before the crossing but curiously, rather than being rendered from the point of view of those left on the European shore, the ship approaches a viewer who already stands somewhere in the Atlantic, looking back…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Land & territory
Subjects
Maps, Climate change