Entranced Earth: Art, Extractivism and the End of Landscape

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2023 (FlashPoints)

“Jens Andermann’s Entranced Earth: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape is a vertiginous study of how twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American artists, architects, writers, and filmmakers respond to ecological exhaustion. Andermann calls our transformed planet the inmundo, a word that in Spanish translates to filthy or foul but also contains within it the word for world: mundo. The inmundo refers to the foul unworlding of the world brought about by extractive colonial capitalism … [The book] is an effervescent work that, like trance itself, spills over in blissful excess, taking readers down countless paths traced by Latin American environmental aesthetics: from extractivism to the garden, and from ecoacoustics to memory beyond the human.”

Carolyn Fornoff, Comparative Literature Studies