My book Ecologies of the Moving Image takes Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zone, so richly depicted in his celebrated 1979 film Stalker, as a kind of master metaphor for how cinema works and, by implication, how art in general works: it beckons its receiver into following it into a zone where, at best, anything can happen. The […]
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Zone as metaphor, metaphor as Zone
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged adequate image, adequate metaphor, Alex Ross, Ecologies of the Moving Image, metaphor, Peirce, process-relational thought, semiosis, semiotics, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog, Zone on February 13, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
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Trump 2.0 critical resource listLyme disease & beyond: a bibliographic resource
Humming the New Earth (on the "global Hum")
33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon revisited) (2015)
Books of the decade in ecocultural theory, 2020
Books of the decade in ecocultural theory, 2010
Between Continental and environmental philosophy (2009)
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Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth
The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies & Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds
Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times
Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature
Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona
Academia.edu (various articles; requires registration)
Selected interviews, talks, music
Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder, SFU, 2025
Apocalyptic Anxieties, SFU, 2023
SFU Global Humanities interview
KCSB Selectric Davyland interview
The Zone is Us (Vermont Humanities, 2022)
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Krista Tippett On Being (Speaking of Faith) interview
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