French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, in his The Three Ecologies, was the first to articulate the threefold nature of ecology, but he failed to provide a clear articulation of why there should be three and only three ecologies — not two, not one, not four or more. What is the ontological justification for this […]
Posts Tagged ‘ecomedia’
Media+Environment has launched
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged ecocinema studies, ecomedia, ecomedia studies, media ecologies, media ecology, Media+Environment, open access on November 26, 2019 | 3 Comments »
Media+Environment, the new, open access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research published by the University of California Press, has launched its first issue and thematic stream, on “The States of Media+Environment.” The introduction can be read here. Articles can be accessed here.
Opening access…
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged Academe, ecomedia, ecomedia studies, journals, media and environment, Media+Environment, open access, University of California Press on October 28, 2019 | 1 Comment »
Janet Walker, Alenda Chang, and I talk about the open-access model we’ve chosen for Media+Environment journal, here on the University of California Press blog. “OA is a bit like ‘the cloud.’ It may seem ethereal and free, but in reality it’s tangible and the subsidies have got to come from somewhere! We’re trying to figure […]
Announcing Media+Environment Journal
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged ecocinema studies, ecomedia, media ecology, Media+Environment on May 9, 2019 | 1 Comment »
This announcement is long past due… It’s for the new, open access, peer-reviewed international journal that I am co-editing with Alenda Chang and Janet Walker, through the University of California Press. It includes a call for submissions for two special issue “streams”: “Disaster Media” and “Mediating Art & Science.” Media+Environment is an open access, online, […]
Green new dealing it…
Posted in MediaSpace, Politics, tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, campaign finance reform, climate change communication, ecomedia, environmental communication, Fox Business News, Fox News, Green New Deal, Juan Williams, media, right-wing media, Robert Hockett, television, Tucker Carlson on February 9, 2019 | 20 Comments »
For someone who teaches media and environment, it’s heartening to see people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and one of her advisors, Cornell legal star Robert Hockett, break through the media din. Even Tucker Carlson had to admit that “it’s nice to have a smart person” on his show to explain things. (Students, take note.) First, Ocasio-Cortez:
Post-Cinema
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged digital culture, ecocinema, ecomedia, post-cinema on April 11, 2016 | 6 Comments »
At long last, Shane Denson’s and Julia Leyda’s anthology Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film has come out in Catherine Grant’s Reframe Books open-access series. This mammoth anthology features some of the leading theorists of our cinematic/media moment including Lev Manovich, Steven Shaviro, Richard Grusin, Vivian Sobchack, Francesco Casetti, Patricia Pisters, Mark Hansen, and many others. It includes an […]
“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 […]
Offshore
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged Deepwater Horizon, documentaries, ecomedia, Offshore, petrocultures on September 11, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been enjoying Under Western Skies 3: Environments, Technologies, Communities, which has featured a wonderful array of critical environmental theorists and practitioners — including among its keynotes Justice Thomas Berger (whose 1978-8 Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry Report was a classic of environmental legal innovation), the indigenous activist group Idle No More, historian and Center of the American […]
Ecomedia on YouTube
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged ecomedia, videos, YouTube on January 17, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Reposted from e2mc: evolving ecological media cultures: I’ve begun a YouTube playlist entitled “Ecomedia,” where I’ll be sharing ecologically relevant PSAs, eco-art videos, and other works relevant to the broad and loose category encompassed by its title. Access it here. Feel free to “like” it, subscribe to it, and send suggestions to me about videos that should be […]
Environmental media: call for curators
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged ecomedia, environmental communication on March 7, 2013 | 1 Comment »
In Media Res is calling for guest curators on the theme of the representation of environmental issues in the media. The deadline (alas) is March 11. See the call here. H/t to Ecomedia Studies.
polar bears for green blogs
Posted in EcoCulture, ImageNation, tagged ecomedia on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This blog was added to the Directory of Best Green Blogs earlier today. To honor that I thought I would re-post a link to one of my favorite climate change related videos: the plastic bag polar bears emerging from the subway vent and melting back into them (i.e., the Environmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad […]