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Vik Muniz & his waste pickers

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 25, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Here are my introductory comments to the 2010 documentary Waste Land, delivered yesterday at the Fleming Museum in Burlington and shown in connection with the exhibition High Trash, which runs until May 19.

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“Only a god can save us…”

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on March 16, 2012 | 9 Comments »

  In a comment to my last post on triads and divinities, my frequent commenter/interlocutor “dmf” points out a nice essay by Robert Gall called “From Daimonion to the ‘Last’ God: Socrates, Heidegger, and the God of the Thinker,” which Mark Fullmer has made available beyond the restricted-access community. Gall distinguishes between the god of […]

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Munich surf

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Things to do on a Sunday in Munich… 1. Find where nature and culture (river and engineering) slam into each other in a passionate wave. Ride it. Observations: To enjoy it at all, you have to be good. Some of these guys (and women) are really good. If you stay up for more than the […]

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Artmonks: children of Thoreau & Whitehead

Posted in Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »

If Thoreau’s quest to “live deliberately […] and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” were cross-bred with A. N. Whitehead’s insight that creativity is the driving core of all things in the universe, the “universal of universals,” then today’s “artmonks” are children not of Marx and Coca-Cola (as Godard […]

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Elixir as child’s play

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Marina Zurkow’s Elixir videos are wonderful, as is her Renatured blog. (Thanks to Tim for posting about her work.) There is something sad and elemental about them, in their depiction of the self-containedness of our worlds and their ultimate vulnerability in the face of the chaos beyond. At the same time, the title suggests an […]

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on politics & ontology

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , , on November 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

(For some reason, this didn’t go out over Google Reader, so I’m re-posting it…) The Speculative Realist blogosphere has been abuzz over the relationship between ontology and politics. Nick Srnicek’s post at Speculative Heresy – and the many comments on it – provide a good entry point to this discussion. Nick has wisely redrawn his […]

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walking history’s ruins w/ Chris Marker & Arvo Pärt

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Michael Moore may be American cinema’s best known film essayist (or propagandist, if you like), but the leader of the genre is still alive and kicking, at age 88, living quietly in Paris (no doubt with one or several cats). Chris Marker’s Pictures at an Exhibition is a walk through a gallery of his photoshopped […]

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fairy villages, bowerbird art, & other ambiguous objects

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2009 | 56 Comments »

One of my (largely dormant) pet projects over the years has been to document and theorize anonymous, self-decomposing artworks made in collaboration with nature and time. These works are creative engagements with environments — often simple rearrangements of physical materials (rocks, wood, found pieces of scrap metal or discarded trash, and the like) — by […]

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filmmakers & the Iranian opposition

Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged , , , on June 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Two of the world’s best known Iranian artists, Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic novel Persepolis and director of the Oscar-winning animated feature based on it, and leading filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, have been presenting apparent “proof” at the European Parliament that Mousavi actually won the elections. This comes in the form of an internal memo […]

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affective contagion & the events in Tehran

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , on June 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m sure I’m not the only one following these events with excited trepidation and a feeling of almost wanting to be there (but glad also to be watching it from afar). Which makes me wonder: what is it about revolutionary moments that fires the imagination and keeps us, or me at least, plugged into them […]

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