Conway, Kyle2024-04-042024-04-042024Conway, Kyle. 2024. "The World in Front of the Text: Landscape as Medium of Mutuality." Media Fields Journal 18.2159–7553http://mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/the-world-in-front-of-the-text/http://hdl.handle.net/10393/46073This article describes an approach to interpreting landscape derived from the work of Paul Ricoeur. It examines a photograph of signs erected by oil companies in North Dakota forbidding entry to a well site, using these signs as a starting point to explore a paradoxical feature of a geographic site-as-text, namely the way that such sites exist within the world but also as texts that produce a world of their own. In the play between these two worlds, the first ostensive, the second not, landscape opens up a relational space of mutuality where imagination plays a central role.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/hermeneuticsPaul RicoeurNorth Dakotapetroculturesenergy humanitieslandscapeArticle