"Sea Consciousness: Reading Martín-Santos against Phenomenological Horizons"

My article, published yesterday in More than Thought, synchronizes some of my thinking on Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and The Invisible, a Martín-Santos' short story and the latter's incomplete novel, Tiempo de destrucción.  My line of thinking engages Martín-Santos' interest in phenomenology as it appears in his fiction.  I try to develop a (latent) understanding of landscapes as phantasmal imaginaries, predicated on human optics and horizons.  As psychoanalysis and phenomenology begin to think of the gaze as not merely human (or social), but rather inherent in objects.  The nonhuman perspective gains power in these texts.  The implication is, of course, political.  Following Latour and Morton, maintaining Nature (via landscape) over yonder will fail to incorporate nonhumans into the political process.  I see these texts, among others, as 20th century attempts to re-think the relations (and their lack) between humans and nonhumans.