Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media

This article revisits and reconceptualises the geographies of reflection. Questions of reflection have been understood by geographers primarily in terms of vision and visuality and their implication in the representational constitution of the human subject. However, this article argues that reflection can be reconceptualised as more-than-visual and that its geographies should be resituated on a wider spectrum of electromagnetic radiance which includes but goes beyond visible light. Developing this argument, the article extends the geographies of reflection along three conceptual-empirical pathways – radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media.