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Hole in the sky (or what’s a meta for?)

Posted in ImageNation, tagged , , , , , , on March 12, 2020 | 3 Comments »

As I write, there are two known cases of COVID-19 in my state of Vermont, but there are no tests available to me or to the next person to tell us if either of us could be a carrier. Universities and colleges (including my own) have cancelled classes and moved to online teaching. The air […]

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R.I.P. Cassini

Posted in ImageNation, tagged , , , , , on September 16, 2017 | 4 Comments »

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…” 62 moons orbiting in and around the grooved rings of Saturn. Winter and spring, hurricanes, jet streams, and auroras. Rivers and deltas pelted by methane rains on Titan. Hydrothermal vented oceans, and geysers shooting plumes of water that fall back as snow on Enceladus. Moons forming spiral waves cresting […]

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Loznitsa’s ethical witnessing

Posted in ImageNation, MediaSpace, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 25, 2016 | 3 Comments »

I’ve written about ethical witnessing before — both in the eco-trauma chapter of Ecologies of the Moving Image and in my reflections on Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing. Seeing Serhii Loznitsa‘s latest film, Austerlitz, at Kyiv’s Molodist Film Festival a few days ago, prompted me to think some more about how a seemingly neutral camera, […]

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Fort McMurray as fictive image

Posted in AnthropoScene, ImageNation, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2016 | 7 Comments »

With reality like this, who needs fiction? It’s from Fort McMurray, last week. Harrowing. While the impact of such images is undeniable, the debate over whether and how they are related to climate change is a debate the rest of us should not shy away from.

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Artistic bubbleology 101

Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, ImageNation, tagged , , , , , on April 20, 2016 | 3 Comments »

One of the best ways to respond to the Bubble I mentioned in the last post is through the arts. Here’s the poster for my summer course examining artistic responses to the global crisis.

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How to die in the Anthropocene

Posted in ImageNation, tagged on January 11, 2016 | 4 Comments »

He left us with this to mull over. (Thanks to Roy Scranton for the title idea.)

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Apocalypse mashup

Posted in ImageNation, MediaSpace, tagged , , on September 18, 2014 | 1 Comment »

This week’s theme in my “Environmental Literature, Arts, & Media” class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I’m loosely following Greg Garrard’s list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.) Because it’s a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I’d post a few of the videos we’ve been watching […]

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Anthropocene aesthetics

Posted in AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, ImageNation, tagged , , on April 10, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posting this piece by Emil from A(s)cene. Taylor’s coral reef art is beautiful. See also the discussion of Donna Haraway’s “String Figures” lecture and Bruno Latour’s 11 theses on capitalism.   

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Apocalypstickle?

Posted in ImageNation, Politics on February 21, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Just as environmental media have a penchant for the spectacle of “disaster porn,” so does political media reveal a strong attraction to what Politico’s Sarah Kendzior, in “The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine,” calls the “apocalypstickle.” An ugly word for political observers’ weird fascination with apocalyptic imagery. Brueghel, Bosch . . . and […]

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50 years

Posted in ImageNation, MediaSpace, tagged , , , on November 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »

A. O. Scott’s article on the Abraham Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination captures something of the 50-year transition from the first cinéma vérité president (Kennedy) to a world in which everyone is their own cinéma vérité celebrity — stars and legends in our own minds. The Zapruder film in a sense predates all that — it comes […]

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Documenting the act of killing

Posted in ImageNation, Politics, tagged , , , , , on October 23, 2013 | 4 Comments »

The following is reblogged, excerpted and modified, from e²mc. How do films deal with historical atrocities? And how might they enable them in the first place? The Act of Killing is Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling documentary about the perpetrators of the mass murders committed by the Suharto regime’s paramilitary death squads in mid-1960s Indonesia. The filmmakers […]

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First after-thoughts…

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, ImageNation, tagged on July 30, 2013 | 5 Comments »

It arrived a few days ago. Feels good to grasp in the hand: thick, solid, “capacious” (as Steven Shaviro says in one of the cover blurbs). And Tarkovsky has rarely looked as green as on the cover. But I’ve already found an indefensible oversight:

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