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Angel of Apocalyptic History

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2023 | 2 Comments »

My talk at the recent “Apocalyptic Anxieties” conference, at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is available for viewing at the SFU Institute for the Humanities YouTube page, or below. Here is an abstract of the talk: From the Angel of Apocalyptic History to the Optimism of the Will: Climate Hope within States of Urgency Apocalyptic […]

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Creation of the world in seven days

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , on September 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

On day one, I poked an eye open. And shut it tight. On day two, I tried again, looked around, grasped for something, clutched it tight. Then I ate it. On day three (a lot of things happened between days two and three), I started thinking.

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Apocalypse mashup

Posted in Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , 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 […]

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From Cap & Trade to apocalypse

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Annie Leonard’s Free Range Studios, whose viral video The Story of Stuff made some waves a little while back, has now produced a critique of the Cap and Trade system, some version of which is the most likely outcome of negotiations taking place in Copenhagen over the coming days. Over at Grist, David Roberts claims […]

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