{"id":991,"date":"2016-10-25T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/?p=991"},"modified":"2016-10-25T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:38:49","slug":"landscape-as-a-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/2016\/10\/25\/landscape-as-a-commodity\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape as a commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the section \u201cThe Sacred Silent Language\u201d within Mitchell\u2019s essay, <em>Imperial Landscape,<\/em> to be the most interesting and thought provoking part of the essay. I didn\u2019t really understand his point that landscape is used as a \u201cmedium of exchange\u201d until his example using the value of real estate. Placing a monetary value on every desirable piece of land perverts the \u201cideal landscape\u201d when considering how people <em>consume<\/em> landscape. This emphasis of valuing landscape in monetary terms brings up the idea that our current societal structure has more or less made landscape its most valuable commodity. Mitchell points out that we can exhaust every natural resource within a given landscape, but still place a numerical value on it. In this sense, it seems logical that empires past and present have used the acquisition of land as a means of expressing power. The quote, \u201cEmpires move outward in space as a way of moving forward in time,\u201d is relevant to our class and our discussions on how space and time are linked together (Mitchell, 170). People use the concept of inhabiting a space to enhance one\u2019s sense of self, but Mitchell goes a step further and says that people also use space and landscape to gather wealth and express it to others. It is this that affirms the idea that, as Emerson says, viewing landscape is never really free, and is inextricably linked to \u201ceconomic considerations\u201d (Mitchell, 169).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the section \u201cThe Sacred Silent Language\u201d within Mitchell\u2019s essay, Imperial Landscape, to be the most interesting and thought provoking part of the essay. I didn\u2019t really understand his point that landscape is used as a \u201cmedium of exchange\u201d until his example using the value of real estate. Placing a monetary value on every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}