My book Ecologies of the Moving Image provides some suggestions into how we can become better consumers and co-producers of media. But these suggestions come couched within a 400-page treatise of media (and environmental) philosophy that includes a history of cinema, analyses of various films, and much else. While the focus there is on cinema and […]
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Offsetting the New York Times
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged air travel, carbon accounting, carbon offsets, indulgences, New York Times on October 26, 2016 | 2 Comments »
A friend shared a post about a seemingly unbelievable “opportunity” for the world’s ultra-rich — to “circle the globe on an inspiring and informative journey by private jet, created by The New York Times in collaboration with luxury travel pioneers Abercrombie & Kent.” On this 26-day itinerary, you’d be taken “beneath the surface of some […]
Appearances
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged CENHS, ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, Harman, Latour, religious studies, SCMS on March 9, 2015 | 5 Comments »
My review of Graham Harman’s recent book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, has been published online in the journal Global Discourse. It’s part of a book review symposium, which will be accompanied (in the print issue) by the author’s reply to his interlocutors. The journal has been publishing a lot on Latour’s political theory (see here). I especially […]
The semio-ethics of Coke’s polar bear mascots
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged animals, branding, brands, Coca-cola, environmental communication, mascots, polar bears, WWF on October 16, 2014 | 2 Comments »
A journalist asked me to say something about the use of animal mascots for commercial purposes. In an email, she wrote: “What does a brand owe an animal mascot, especially one at risk? For instance, polar bears face rapid habitat loss, yet Coke has only donated $2 million to the WWF for conservation efforts. There’s also Kellogg’s […]
Apocalypse mashup
Posted in Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged apocalypse, eco-images, global warming 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 […]
Offshore
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Deepwater Horizon, documentaries, ecomedia, Offshore, petrocultures on September 11, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been enjoying Under Western Skies 3: Environments, Technologies, Communities, which has featured a wonderful array of critical environmental theorists and practitioners — including among its keynotes Justice Thomas Berger (whose 1978-8 Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry Report was a classic of environmental legal innovation), the indigenous activist group Idle No More, historian and Center of the American […]
Visiting UC Davis
Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy on April 21, 2014 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be participating in the Mellon-sponsored Environments and Societies Colloquium Series next Wednesday, April 30, at the University of California Davis. My colloquium paper, entitled “On Matters of Concern: Ecology, Ontological Politics, and the Anthropo(s)cene,” is available for reading on the E & S website. (It’s a variation of a chapter for a book on “integral ecologies” […]
“Lest you think we’re a faceless entity…”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Adbusters, culture jamming, Dissolve, media on March 25, 2014 | 2 Comments »
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.
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 […]
Ecomedia on YouTube
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, videos, YouTube on January 17, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Reposted from e2mc: evolving ecological media cultures: I’ve begun a YouTube playlist entitled “Ecomedia,” where I’ll be sharing ecologically relevant PSAs, eco-art videos, and other works relevant to the broad and loose category encompassed by its title. Access it here. Feel free to “like” it, subscribe to it, and send suggestions to me about videos that should be […]
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