Watching Onscene.tv’s continuous, commentary-free footage of the fires in and around Los Angeles is like watching a Buddhist cremation ceremony. Recently vacated homes and buildings burn, slowly collapsing, walls crashing, smoke plumes exiting from windows, and embers blowing from building to building, as a hand-held or vehicle-mounted camera moves silently through empty neighborhoods. Sometimes it […]
Posts Tagged ‘apocalypticism’
Burning moment
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged apocalypticism, Buddhism, Buddhistic viewing, California wildfires, Dzogchen, Los Angeles, Palisades, wildfires on January 11, 2025 | 1 Comment »
Angel of Apocalyptic History
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Angel of History, apocalypse, Apocalyptic Anxieties, apocalypticism, climate anxiety, climate hope, eco-trauma, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, talks, trauma 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 […]
Planet of Some Humans
Posted in Cinema, Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged apocalypticism, becoming human, Bil McKibben, biocentrism, climate change communication, climate change politics, Deep Adaptation, deep ecology, degrowth, diversity, doomism, ecodocumentaries, ecopolitics, energy politics, films, green energy, Green New Deal, Malthusianism, Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, post-human, Vermont on May 1, 2020 | 5 Comments »
This past week has seen a firestorm of reaction among environmentalists and climate and energy scientists to the online release of the film Planet of the Humans. Written, directed, and produced by first-time director Jeff Gibbs, but — much more importantly — executive-produced and actively promoted by Michael Moore, the film is incendiary and intentionally […]