Afterword-Tripping on the Edge of Everything: Landscape and Ecocriticism

It is well nigh impossible to see anything as not landscape, given that we cannot detach our looking from the culturally constructed lenses and frames that make what we see look like what we expect to perceive and, also, given our wish to provide ever more inclusive definitions of the term “landscape” such that it attends to everything from the land itself to the economies and networks of goods and people that circulate throughout and across the globe. Put another way: What to do when landscape theory winds up, necessarily, as the theory that must account for everything?.