The Paris climate talks were successful in that they resulted in an agreement that is both better than nothing and better than most of us expected. They were a failure in that even if they are followed to the letter — and there’s no provision for enforcing whether anyone follows them or not — they would […]
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Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, COP21, fossil fuel era, international agreements, Paris climate summit on December 13, 2015 | 7 Comments »
Climate Justice for dummies
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, environmental justice on December 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Here’s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps: The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%. Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth’s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human & nonhuman species that exists […]
Cinema, ecology, & the death of carbon capitalism
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged carbon capitalism, CENHS, Cultures of Energy, ecocinema studies, energy humanities on June 23, 2015 | 3 Comments »
Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) has made my Cultures of Energy talk available on their YouTube channel. It’s a longer version of the material I presented at the SCMS “Post-Cinema” panel. Here’s the abstract: This paper thinks through the intersections of three developments: (1) the much debated “end of cinema” […]
“Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema” talk
Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, tagged animation, Anthropocene, biosemiosis, capitalocene, carbon capitalism, documentary, ecocinema studies, ecomedia, media theory, post-cinema on May 5, 2015 | 2 Comments »
The video of my talk on “Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema: Cinema In and Beyond the Capitalocene,” is now up on Vimeo and at Shane Denson’s web site. It is from the SCMS panel “Post-Cinema and/as Speculative Media Theory,” featuring Steven Shaviro, Patricia Pisters, and Mark Hansen. I discuss the archive, the cloud, the common, the slippery morphing image […]
4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering
Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Anthropocene, buen vivir, carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, ecological sacrifice zones, environmental justice, Sydney Tar Ponds on May 1, 2015 | 8 Comments »
Some 2500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gotama articulated what have come to be known as the “4 Noble Truths”: the truth of dukkha, or fundamental suffering (that there is a basic unsatisfactoriness to life), the truth of its causes (that it arises from an ignorance and misperception of the nature of things, which are […]
Post-Cinema, Cultures of Energy
Posted in Cinema, tagged carbon capitalism, Cultures of Energy, Deleuze, post-cinema, Shaviro on April 2, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Those who missed the panel on “Post-Cinema and/as Speculative Media Theory” at last week’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Montreal will be able to view the videos of the talks at medieninitiative. Steven Shaviro, Patricia Pisters, Mark Hansen and I entertained a standing-room only crowd (see the audience spilling out into the hall here). The first […]
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