This ad is making the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. It is brilliant. As Jeff Beer puts it, the stock video footage firm Dissolve illustrates the “marketing strategy equivalent of paint-by-numbers” by putting its own goods to the words of Kendra Eash‘s brilliant McSweeney’s piece.
Archive for March, 2014
“Lest you think we’re a faceless entity…”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Adbusters, culture jamming, Dissolve, media on March 25, 2014 | 2 Comments »
SCMS Media & Environment group
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, Uncategorized, tagged film, media on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »
The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]
Kant’s quaking subject
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Anthropocene, Nigel Clark on March 13, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Emil plunges us further into the inhuman nature of tsunamis, earthquakes, ethics, and modern subjectivity, over at A(S)CENE.
Rethinking the ‘three ecologies’
Posted in Eco-theory, tagged ecocriticism, Ecologies of the Moving Image, epistemology, Guattari, music, Ontology, Peirce, three ecologies, visual art on March 8, 2014 | 10 Comments »
Or, process-relational ecocriticism 2.0 Two of the courses I’m currently teaching — the intermediate-level “Environmental Literature, Art, and Media” and the senior-level “The Culture of Nature” — require introducing an eco-critical framework appropriate to a wide range of artistic forms, from literature to visual art, music, film and new media. The process-relational framework developed in […]