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Artmonks: children of Thoreau & Whitehead

Posted in Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »

If Thoreau’s quest to “live deliberately […] and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” were cross-bred with A. N. Whitehead’s insight that creativity is the driving core of all things in the universe, the “universal of universals,” then today’s “artmonks” are children not of Marx and Coca-Cola (as Godard […]

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Elixir as child’s play

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Marina Zurkow’s Elixir videos are wonderful, as is her Renatured blog. (Thanks to Tim for posting about her work.) There is something sad and elemental about them, in their depiction of the self-containedness of our worlds and their ultimate vulnerability in the face of the chaos beyond. At the same time, the title suggests an […]

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Here & there (or democracy is coming, sort of)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, Politics, Visual culture on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To the USA, perhaps… But mostly neither here nor there… There’s an interesting flare-up occurring over Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saif’s Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, involving respected political theorists David Held and Benjamin Barber, among others. (See Eric Schliesser for more.) The issues it raises are as old as the oldest profession: universities’ […]

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Examining life, trash, & radical nature

Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on February 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCfiv1xtoU I enjoyed Astra Taylor’s film Examined Life when I first saw it a couple of years ago, and, having just watched it again, I’m glad to see that it bears re-viewing. As one might expect, some segments are more lasting than others. Slavoj Zizek wearing an orange safety vest talking about ecology at a […]

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Planes of immanence

Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture on January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“Concepts are like multiple waves, rising and falling, but the plane of immanence is the single wave that rolls them up and unrolls them. … Concepts are the archipelago or skeletal frame, a spinal column rather than a skull, whereas the plane is the breath that suffuses the separate parts.” “it is a [the?] plane […]

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hermaphroditic slugs

Posted in Visual culture on November 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This is better than the snail sex scene in Microcosmos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVi4Z6CjZk?fs=1&hl=en_US H/t to BBC Earth via Leaf Warbler and Reconciliation Ecology.  Try here if the above doesn’t work.

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world looks back

Posted in Visual culture on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

French street artist JR (who I blogged about here) has been awarded the TED Prize. Worldchanging shares a number of his images of “the world looking back” here. The New York Times has more on the story. JR’s web site has more photos.

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setting

Posted in Visual culture, tagged on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

David Byrne has a great, observation- and photo-rich post from Detroit (Don’t Forget the Motor City) that relates back to some of the themes I touched on when I posted about that city’s decline and potential reinvention as an near science-fictional green city. Julien Temple’s Requiem for Detroit (as David points out) provides some context […]

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psychogeographic landscape cinema

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on September 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Andrew Ray over at Some Landscapes has been posting about experimental landscape films, including Chris Welsby‘s Wind Vane, Tree, and other “landscape-generated landscape films”; Sarah Turner’s Perestroika; the “Land Art for the landless” films/performances of Francis Alÿs; and others. Catherine Grant writes about Turner’s hypnotic and haunting Perestroika at filmanalytical. “Films think,” Turner says, “they […]

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Inception: the anti-Matrix?

Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, Visual culture, tagged , on August 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »

I’ve been studiously avoiding reviews of Inception, Christopher Nolan’s new metaphysical heist thriller, wanting to see it for myself (intrigued by its premise) before I start to see it through other people’s eyes. Today I saw it, and I’ve now scanned some of the reviews and a bit of blog commentary (see links at bottom). […]

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white bird (with a black mark) flies

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwm5L48r4g&hl=en_US&fs=1& Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) Film director Yuri Ilyenko, one of the outstanding cinematographers and directors of the short-lived but significant Ukrainian New Wave, has passed away at age 74. Ilyenko (aka Illienko, Ilienko) first shot into prominence as the cinematographer on Sergei Paradjanov’s epochal Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964), which launched what became […]

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sinkhole to hell?

Posted in Visual culture, tagged on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

That really is amazing (as Gerry Canavan says).

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