Every violent suppression of dissent is violence against the humanity that is being born. The world to come is at stake in these encounters. That’s what I tweeted last night while watching what looked like the squashing of a revolution, when riot police appeared by the thousands and began moving in on the territory held […]
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The groundlessness of revolution
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Eastern Europe, Europe, Politics, post-Soviet, revolutions, Ukraine on December 12, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Preparing my Peirce Centennial proposal
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged aesthetics, ethics, logic, Peirce, Peirce Centennial Congress on July 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It will be quite an event for Peirce scholars. My proposed paper will be on applications of Peirce to film theory, and in particular the two neo- (quasi-?) Peircian approaches that I present in Ecologies of the Moving Image. The first of these builds on Sean Cubitt’s three-part typology of the image (pixel–cut–vector, which I […]
EMI is imminent…
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecocinema studies, Ecologies of the Moving Image on June 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Ecologies of the Moving Image will be out next month. (Some seven years after I started working on it.) Here is a poster for it. Many thanks to Steven Shaviro and Sean Cubitt for their generous endorsements, which I reproduce here: “Ecologies of the Moving Image is an ambitious book, and a capacious and satisfying […]
How a film becomes a subject
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged Up the Yangtze on May 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A key question for a process-relational account of a film is the question of how that film shows objects and subjects in the process of being made — how it shows subjectivation and objectivation arising together. Much of Ecologies of the Moving Image is about this, but what remains more implicit throughout the book is the way […]
Stalking the book…
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged Chernobyl, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Zone on May 22, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Teaching my film course (especially in its current rendition as “Ecology Film Philosophy”) and the book that goes with it (Ecologies of the Moving Image, which will be publicly available in July) — and especially teaching the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, which serves as a sort of template for the book — makes me feel […]
Ecology ~ Film ~ Philosophy
Posted in Media ecology on April 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s what I’m slated to teach this summer, for 3 weeks beginning May 20. Ecology – Film – Philosophy
Environmental media: call for curators
Posted in Media ecology, tagged ecomedia, environmental communication on March 7, 2013 | 1 Comment »
In Media Res is calling for guest curators on the theme of the representation of environmental issues in the media. The deadline (alas) is March 11. See the call here. H/t to Ecomedia Studies.
Introducing e²mc
Posted in Media ecology, tagged e2mc, media ecology on January 18, 2013 | 3 Comments »
e2mc, short for “evolving ecological media cultures,” has gone online. e2mc begins as the class blog for the University of Vermont course “Media Ecologies and Cultural Politics.” Its long-term goal is to become the online face of the UVM Ecomedia Studies Lab, which is still in development. The blog is open to anyone interested in participating, […]
Immanence goes to Scoop.it
Posted in Blog stuff, Media ecology on January 7, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The Immanence Shadow Blog — that space where I scoop up little things of interest found on the internet — has been reinvented and reloaded as scoop.it/t/immanence. You can subscribe to it here. The latest piece I’ve added is the following bit of prescient (or perhaps eternally relevant) American humor: H/t to Jon Cogburn at […]
WLU Press catalog out
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Ecologies of the Moving Image on December 30, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The Wilfrid Laurier University Press page for Ecologies of the Moving Image is up, here. Their Spring catalogue, which can be downloaded here, includes two new books on Jean-Luc Godard (adding to an impressive back catalog of film titles), as well as Gary Genosko’s When Technocultures Collide, Kamboureli and Verduyn’s Critical Collaborations: Indigenity, Diaspora, and […]
Post-Soviet riot grrls
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Eastern Europe, Femen, music, protest, Pussy Riot, Ukraine on August 20, 2012 | 6 Comments »
While this doesn’t have much to do with the usual themes of this blog, it is an interesting case study of media culture and political protest (and one that my Ukrainian studies background qualifies me to comment on). It’s the case of Pussy Riot supporter Inna Shevchenko, an activist with the Ukrainian feminist protest group […]
NT10: Ian Bogost (& Grusin closing)
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged Nonhuman Turn on May 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Bogost’s talk not being streamed (by his request). Ian Bogost, “The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry” A talk about philosophy and the objects of which it’s made, in 12 parts (first 11 are pretend) I. Enjoying This Presentation II. The Things We Do: Airport tarmac. Philosophers in a lecture hall not unlike an aircraft approaching the […]
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