I did a double-take when a producer from BYU Radio — Brigham Young University’s faith-and-values based talk radio station, which broadcasts to millions around the world through Sirius XM satellite radio — approached me for an interview about Ecologies of the Moving Image. I presume the majority of listeners are members of the Church of […]
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Mormon film ecologies
Posted in Cinema, tagged Ecologies of the Moving Image, interview, Mormon on November 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Society & Space interview
Posted in Cinema, Uncategorized on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Society and Space has posted a conversation/interview that Harlan Morehouse carried out with me in early October. While it’s focused on Ecologies of the Moving Image, we talk about plenty of other things — nature and culture, the eco-humanities, the Anthropocene, ontology, critical geography, Buddhism, Zizek, Peirce, nationalism, withdrawn objects, and more. And plenty of […]
Documenting the act of killing
Posted in Cinema, Politics, Visual culture, tagged atrocities, documentary, Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing 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 […]
EMI online course
Posted in Cinema, tagged ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, film on September 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posting from e2mc: I’ve begun teaching a course on film and ecology and using my book Ecologies of the Moving Image as the main text. Since the topic is related to the theme of this blog, and since I’ll be creating reading guides and posting links to film clips and related materials for my students, […]
The conceptual machine
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged categories, Deleuze, ecosophy-G, Ontology, epistemology, Peirce, Whitehead on July 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always been more of an improviser than a long-range planner, but my job requires that I occasionally dabble in long-range projections of my work. Here’s one. While a number of concerns have framed my scholarship over the years — ethical, political, cultural, ecological, and theoretical concerns — the philosophical core of it has been […]
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 […]
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 […]
2 or 3 things about the cinema book
Posted in Cinema, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image on October 22, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Ecologies of the Moving Image is a book of ecophilosophy that happens to be about cinema, and about the 12-decade history of cinema at that. What makes it ecophilosophy? It is philosophy that is deeply informed both by an understanding of ecological science and an interdisciplinary appreciation for today’s ecological crisis. Why cinema?
The wound of eco-trauma
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged Ecologies of the Moving Image on September 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
My article “The Wound of What Has Not Happened Yet: Cine-Semiotics of Eco-Trauma” appeared in the trilingual (English-German-Czech) arts journal Umelec late last year. (It kicked off the issue, followed by Mark Fisher’s wonderful “Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism.”) The editors illustrated it with photos from David Cronenberg’s Crash, which I found funny. The […]