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François Walter, « The uncertain landscape. Reflections on landscape temporalities in the Swiss context », Revue de Géographie Alpine, ID : 10.3406/rga.2006.2402
: How does one comprehend the landscape in terms of its multiple temporalities : the temporality of its variable ecological factors, the temporality of its social history, and the temporality of its representations ? The lability and plasticity of the real landscape contrast with a certain rigidity in the perceptive codes used by the landscape « reader ». Would the cultural unconscious deprived of picturesque images be able to find references in a changing environment that has no longer anything to do with certain out-dated fantasies of the memory ? When the loss of a reference framework clouds the understanding and returns the observer to a state of generalised opacity, the landscape becomes uncertain. Is there not a danger of it disappearing altogether if the beholder no longer knows how to contemplate it ?