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” […]
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Cinema, ecology, & the death of carbon capitalism
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged carbon capitalism, CENHS, cinema, Cultures of Energy, ecocinema studies, energy humanities on June 23, 2015 | 3 Comments »
“Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema” talk
Posted in AnthropoScene, MediaSpace, tagged animation, Anthropocene, biosemiosis, capitalocene, carbon capitalism, cinema, documentary, ecocinema studies, ecomedia, media theory, post-cinema, process-relational thought 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 […]
Post-Cinema, Cultures of Energy
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged carbon capitalism, cinema, 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 […]
EMI’s cinematic materialism (a response to reviews)
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, MediaSpace, tagged cinema, cinema studies, ecocdriticism, Ecologies of the Moving Image, EMI, film-philosophy on December 29, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of the open-access Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, an issue devoted to “Gilles Deleuze and Moving Images,” includes a review by Niall Flynn of my book Ecologies of the Moving Image. Another recent review of EMI can be found in the The Journal of Ecocriticism. And I’ve mentioned the Environmental Humanities […]
SCMS Media & Environment group
Posted in ..., EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged cinema, film, media on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »
The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]
Whiteheadian films
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged cinema, film, Whitehead, Whitehead Film Festival, Whiteheadian aesthetic on January 16, 2014 | 4 Comments »
Readers of this blog know that my recent book presents what’s essentially a Whiteheadian (and Peircian) theory of cinema. (A theory, not the theory. And when compared to something as deeply Whiteheadian in its details as, say, Donald Sherburne’s A Whiteheadian Aesthetic, mine is, at best, “inspired by Whitehead.”)
50 years
Posted in ImageNation, MediaSpace, tagged cinema, JFK, reality, Zapruder film on November 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A. O. Scott’s article on the Abraham Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination captures something of the 50-year transition from the first cinéma vérité president (Kennedy) to a world in which everyone is their own cinéma vérité celebrity — stars and legends in our own minds. The Zapruder film in a sense predates all that — it comes […]
Mormon film ecologies
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged cinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, interview, Mormon on November 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I did a double-take when a producer from BYU Radio — Brigham Young University’s faith-and-values based talk radio station, which broadcasts to millions around the world through Sirius XM satellite radio — approached me for an interview about Ecologies of the Moving Image. I presume the majority of listeners are members of the Church of […]
Documenting the act of killing
Posted in ImageNation, Politics, tagged atrocities, cinema, documentary, Indonesia, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing on October 23, 2013 | 4 Comments »
The following is reblogged, excerpted and modified, from e²mc. How do films deal with historical atrocities? And how might they enable them in the first place? The Act of Killing is Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling documentary about the perpetrators of the mass murders committed by the Suharto regime’s paramilitary death squads in mid-1960s Indonesia. The filmmakers […]
EMI online course
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged cinema, ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, film on September 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posting from e2mc: I’ve begun teaching a course on film and ecology and using my book Ecologies of the Moving Image as the main text. Since the topic is related to the theme of this blog, and since I’ll be creating reading guides and posting links to film clips and related materials for my students, […]
Preparing my Peirce Centennial proposal
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged aesthetics, cinema, ethics, logic, Peirce, Peirce Centennial Congress on July 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It will be quite an event for Peirce scholars. My proposed paper will be on applications of Peirce to film theory, and in particular the two neo- (quasi-?) Peircian approaches that I present in Ecologies of the Moving Image. The first of these builds on Sean Cubitt’s three-part typology of the image (pixel–cut–vector, which I […]
How a film becomes a subject
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged cinema, process-relational thought, Up the Yangtze on May 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A key question for a process-relational account of a film is the question of how that film shows objects and subjects in the process of being made — how it shows subjectivation and objectivation arising together. Much of Ecologies of the Moving Image is about this, but what remains more implicit throughout the book is the way […]
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