Just as I’m teaching the “biomorphism” section of my film course (where we burrow into the interactive liveliness of moving-image objects), Tim Morton at Ecology without Nature shares this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT13GuPZHMA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3 It all starts from wheeling around. Great stuff.
Archive for the ‘Media ecology’ Category
the wheel
Posted in Media ecology on November 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
writing…
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged film, Peirce on July 6, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s been slow here because I am hard at work on the manuscript of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which I had hoped to finish this summer. The first three chapters are complete or close to it; the last three and final epilogue are in various stages of semi-completion. Until they are complete, blogging may […]
an energy independent future
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Jon Stewart, oilpocalypse on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Stewart’s history of US energy policy…
“It’s the unknown that’s killing us”
Posted in Media ecology, tagged oilpocalypse on May 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Associated Press is reporting that the “oil spill cam” has become an Internet sensation. On Thursday, apparently, “more than a million people watched it. Many found it hypnotic.” Also, apparently, watching the video can “offer clues to who is winning in the battle — BP or the oil,” according to the director of the […]
drill baby drill…
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged ecopolitics, oilpocalypse on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How’s that drill-baby-drilly stuff workin’ out for ya? On the other hand, the violence in détournements like this one is pretty grotesque. I’m even hesitant to link to it, let alone embedding it, for fear of getting my hands too dirty. I don’t think I’d want the guy who made it (no question it’s a […]
digital agora
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged Academe, blogosphere, philosophy on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Levi has an interesting post on how the internet is changing the way philosophy gets done. [. . . ]
Still, it’s nice to dream of a world in which philosophy and the liberal arts aren’t seen as unprofitable appendages left over from an era of bloated welfare states (a neoliberal narrative that is deeply problematic), but where they are vital nodes within a culture of social and ecological transformation — not because philosophy feeds social change in some direct, instrumental way, but because of a shared recognition between philosophers and activists of how and why it is that we have come to live in a world of oil spills and economic crises, and how and why it could be all different.
the crystal image
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged Deleuze, time on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A couple of recent posts by Chris Vitale and Tim Morton have rekindled my thinking about Deleuze’s crystal-image. Chris’s interesting post is about the power of crowdsourcing and video detournement in delivering a more democratic form of media politics. Tim’s brief posts share music videos and reflections on dark ecology and the timbral. Chris describes […]
May Day reports
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology on May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Happy May Day and merry Beltane, to those in a mood to celebrate this weekend. I’m traveling and unable to blog much, but the past week’s events warrant at least a quick update on why such a mood might be difficult to sustain with any steadiness. The biggest environmental bad news story was, of course, […]
the Event (or, ‘nature at its finest’)
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged dark vitalism, event, eventology, Herzog, Iceland, landscape, nature, volcanoes on April 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Volcanic eruption films aren’t plentiful enough to make their own genre. Most of them fall into the disaster genre or the straight documentary video. Werner Herzog’s 1977 film La Soufrière, about the anticipated eruption in 1976 of an active volcano on the island of Guadeloupe, is different. Like his quasi-science-fictional films — Fata Morgana, Lessons […]
theory videos
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged Latour on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One can find an increasing number of videotaped lectures online by today’s better known cultural theorists. But lectures are lectures, and the best audio-visual teaching tools remain full-fledged documentaries like Manufacturing Consent, An Examined Life, or Slavoj Zizek’s Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, and these remain all too rare. Somewhere in between the two are small-budget, […]
cinema poetry
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged great scenes on April 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I just discovered the video blog Cinema Poetry, which has collected twenty (so far) of the most remarkable scenes in the history of cinema. The first of the two ride films below, the Lumiere brothers’ rickshaw film from an Indochinese village, is beautiful (watch it in full screen with the sound turned all the way […]
in praise of unfaithful thinking
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged Deleuze, great scenes, intellectual promiscuity on March 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovsxauCwOb0&hl=en_US&fs=1& There are two ways of being an academic. One is to burrow ever deeper into the little field one cultivates, to become a master of it, all the while propping up the fenceposts around that field to ensure that one’s terrain is left undisturbed by poachers, wild boars or raccoons, dissonant ideas, and so […]
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