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Anthropo(s)cenic Chernobyl* in image & text

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2018 | 6 Comments »

My Gund Institute research talk from a few months ago, on “Navigating Earth’s ‘Zone of Alienation’: Chernobyl and the Search for Adequate Images of the Anthropocene,” can now be viewed online (see link below). It consists mostly of out-takes from my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, forthcoming later this year from Punctum Books.

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Herzog’s cave

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , on June 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is probably not an essential Werner Herzog film, and I sympathize with those (like Bill Benzon) who’d much rather just see the pictures and do without Herzog’s prattling on or the “banshee muzak,” as Bill calls it. In both the prattling and especially the banshee muzak (which is pretty good, for […]

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the Event (or, ‘nature at its finest’)

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , on April 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Volcanic eruption films aren’t plentiful enough to make their own genre. Most of them fall into the disaster genre or the straight documentary video. Werner Herzog’s 1977 film La Soufrière, about the anticipated eruption in 1976 of an active volcano on the island of Guadeloupe, is different. Like his quasi-science-fictional films — Fata Morgana, Lessons […]

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