I suspect I’m not the only one fascinated by the mystery #drone sightings that have been reported in various parts of the eastern United States and occasionally near military installations in Europe and the UK over the last several weeks. There are three general hypotheses I can think of to account for them (and it […]
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Drone ontology, part 1
Posted in Media ecology, Science & society, tagged conspiracy culture, drone ontology, drone sightings, drones, epistemology, Forteana, La Monte Young, mysteries, Ontology, paranormal, science on December 17, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Symbiocene talk, AI, & other things
Posted in Anthropocene, Media ecology, tagged AI, artificial intelligence, big data, Free Cultural Space, Glenn Albrecht, human-nature relationships, Symbiocene, Towards the Symbiocene on June 27, 2024 | 1 Comment »
This blog has been a bit quiet as I transition to my new position as Woodsworth Chair in Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. I’ll be sharing more about that soon. In the meantime, I can share links to a few recent talks. Last year’s Free Cultural Spaces symposium “Towards the Symbiocene,” held in Amsterdam’s Club […]
Ecomaterialist theory roundtable
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged ecomaterialism, Ecomedia theory, materialism, media studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies on April 17, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
I’m part of a roundtable discussion on ecomaterialist theory that’s just been published by the New Review of Film and Television Studies. It’s with film and media studies scholars Seán Cubitt (of Melbourne University), Elena Past (Wayne State University), and Hunter Vaughan (University of Cambridge), and curated by Ludo de Roo (Macquarie University). Among other topics, the roundtable delves […]
Ecomedia Studies handbook
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, tagged António Lopez, ecomedia, ecomediality, media studies, media theory, Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, three ecologies on August 8, 2023 | 1 Comment »
I’m happy to share the news that the Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies is out — and is entirely open-access, which is especially thrilling, as Routledge handbooks can otherwise get pretty expensive. It’s a 36-chapter mega-volume that tries to define the field and lay out some of its most exciting international contours. The volume is […]
Cinema will henceforth be Godardian
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged cinema, cinematic thinking, cineosis, Deleuze, Godard, Jean-Luc Godard, media, utopian thinking on September 27, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
The work of Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away a couple of weeks ago through euthanasia at the age of 91, has always seemed to me to be about the possibilities of cinema as a form of thinking. Cinema’s combination of sound and image, constrained by the capacities of the medium but also evolving as those […]
Info war & peace, theories turning to ashes
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Bellingcat, cyber warfare, cyberwar, disinformation, information warfare, infowar, media warfare, Putin, Russia, Svitlana Matviyenko, Ukraine, Zelenskiy, Zelensky, Zelenskyy on March 11, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
This is being cross-posted (in modified form) from UKR-TAZ, where it is part of a series examining the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine continues to horrify, with casualties mounting and humanitarian corridors failing to materialize. But one of its more interesting dimensions, from the perspective of media and cultural theory, is the […]
Post-pandemic, what will have changed?
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Media ecology, Politics, tagged ClimateJustice, COVID-19, ecojustice, environmentalism, futurism, globalism, green cities, green politics, international green movement, localism, media ecology, optimism, pandemic, post-pandemic, predictions on May 13, 2021 | 2 Comments »
When we look back at this time a few decades hence, what changes will we take the pandemic of 2020-21 to have ushered in? How will it have transformed work, recreation, travel and transportation, food, politics, and everything else? The following are some initial thoughts toward a hopeful eco-justice based perspective on how the world […]
Media+Environment at FLEFF tonight
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, ecomedia studies, environmental communication, environmental journalism, journals, media studies, Media+Environment, open access on April 9, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Happy to share that I’ll be participating in a panel/conversation at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), in a celebration of open-access journal Media+Environment, today from 5:00 to 6:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time (21:00-22:30 GMT). FLEFF, which is now in its 24th year, is one of the signature environmental film festivals around the world. […]
Civil crisis, media, & the future of hegemony
Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, tagged cultural hegemony, culture wars, Fairness Doctrine, George Lakoff, illiberalism, media ecologies, media ecology, media hegemony, media regimes, political polarization, Trumpism, Walter Cronkite on January 12, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a fairly straightforward narrative about media and cultural hegemony in the United States that most scholarly observers have come to largely agree on (with the usual spectrum of variations in emphasis), but that more of the public ought to be aware of. It accounts for how we got here, into this situation where media […]
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