la vivencia del Otro no representado

In "La pregunta por la poesía," Miguel Casado cites a passage from Karlheinz Stierle that I couldn't agree with more:

El sujeto lírico es un sujeto en busca de su propia identidad, cuya articulación lírica está contenida en el movimiento de esta misma búsqueda.  Por eso, los temas clásicos de la lírica son aquellos en los que la identidad se percibe como precaria: el amor, la muerte, la autorreflexión, la vivencia del Otro no representado socialmente y, en particular, el paisaje.  En todo caso, el sujeto lírico es una situación de sujeto, una figura de sujeto, a través de la cual se puede vislumbrar la identidad problemática como condición del discurso problemático. (27)

What interests me here is the discussion of landscape as the unrepresented other.  What Stierle means is not that there aren't esthetic representations of landscape.  Of course there are.  What is brought up here is that the epistemological categories conjured up by these representations have nothing to do with this nonhuman other.  This is another approach to Bruno Latour's concern about the exclusion of "nature" from politics.

A first step (and implication) of this observation is a survey of poetry (among other cultural texts) that destabilizes the signifier of landscape.  This is where my work on Talens began--as a questioning of the epistemological category of nature.  This brings me to the second step: emphasizing a new kind of ontology after we shed our biases about nature, landscape and wilderness as given categories.  What we need is not simply new critical categories of reading but also new forms of art that emphasize the processes, relations (and lack of relations) previously discussed under the guise of "nature writing."