Reading Human Ecologically
The efforts of reading Human Ecologically require texture or some tool set by or with which to navigate. These tools or textures needn’t necessarily be manifest in the terrain of the representation, they can be brought to the representation from outside of it. The representation is the “geography” which is being navigated in reading. On the most basic level all representation’s have a “beginning” and an “ending” by which to navigate them. This most basic form of “beginning” and “ending” is the reader’s attention–completely a priori to the representation itself–a reader engages with a representation for a time and eventually disengages form it (ultimately this means “birth” and “death”). Other forms of geographic terrain, beginnings and endings, present in representation, but not necessarily imbedded within the representation itself (granted, this is an arguable point) are the physical components of a representation and various cultural factors (i.e. type face, paint, medium, etc.,). Forms of geographic terrain present within representations are elements like language, various signs and symbols (these are often culturally signified), character and tense.
