![]() Different ways of using the camera enabled this generation of mountaineer-sportsmen to constitute themselves as subjects of modernism. Through their cameras they cultivated a new and non-traditional way experiencing their surroundings and their bodies. Photographs reveal a sensibility that is not evident in the written discourse. They are extensions of what they desired to see as well as extensions of what they desired to feel. As historical evidence, photographs are not merely reproductions of what they saw. Portable cameras and the event of photographing served this desire. While mountaineers made pioneering climbs in the Rocky and Selkirk ranges, their desire to reproduce the event brought additional meaning to the experience. However, the specific focus is on the production and consumption of mountaineering photographs produced in the Canadian Rocky and Selkirk mountains between 18. This paper considers journals, monographs and photographs from British and Canadian mountaineers. The early photographs of Canadian mountaineering are a unique genre of historical evidence that serve two functions: (1) they provide pictorial representations of the mountain scenery that supplement literary representations (2) they are also an artifact of a kinetic event, the act of photographing. Provocative, engaging, erudite, this key work will be an essential source for anyone who joins the ongoing debate about the material, linguistic, cultural, and theoretical meaning of "experience" in modern cultures. As he explores the manifold contexts for understanding experience-epistemological, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical-Jay engages an exceptionally broad range of European and American traditions and thinkers from the American pragmatists and British Marxist humanists to the Frankfurt School and the French poststructuralists, and he delves into the thought of individual philosophers as well, including Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume and Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit. Resisting any single overarching narrative, Jay discovers themes and patterns that transcend individuals and particular schools of thought and illuminate the entire spectrum of intellectual history. With its sweeping historical reach and lucid comparative analysis-qualities that have made Martin Jay's previous books so distinctive and so successful-Songs of Experience explores Western discourse from the sixteenth century to the present, asking why the concept of experience has been such a magnet for controversy. Songs of Experience is a remarkable history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience written by one of our best-known intellectual historians. The paper concludes by illustrating that the study of climbing provides insight and critique about the role of human/non-human agency and the situated dynamics of human-technological hybrids.įew words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as "experience." Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and why so many thinkers in so many different traditions have been compelled to understand it. Third, it investigates how bouldering mats extend safe levels of climbing performance whilst altering climbers' relations with the crag. Second, the paper examines the climber's foot-shoe-rock assemblage in order to rethink the plasticity of body and technology as enhanced capabilities emerge throug the co-evolution of the assemblage. ![]() ![]() First, it explores how new spaces of climbing co-produce climbing bodies resulting in differing and sometimes geographically specific skills and attributes. ![]() Using empirical data collected via participant observation and interviews with rock climbers based in northern England, the paper highlights three case studies that help us rethink our situated activities as implicitly mediated and coconstituted by technology. This paper uses Actor Network Theory to study rock climbing as a technologically mediated pursuit and to argue that climbers are more-than-human fusions comprised of the human and non-human.
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