Three things have drawn me repeatedly to the red rock landscape around the small north-central Arizona city of Sedona. First, and most obvious, is the landscape itself, which counts among the most distinctive and stunningly beautiful in the world. Second is the set of processes that landscape has set in motion in the conditions of late capitalist […]
Posts Tagged ‘landscape’
Returning to Sedona
Posted in Eco-culture, Science & society, Spirit matter, tagged Arizona, Claiming Sacred Ground, Coconino National Forest, eco-pilgrimage, ecological management, environmental management, heterotopia, landscape, National Forests, political ecology, Red Rock Country, sacred landscapes, Sedona, Sedona Verde Valley Red Rock National Monument, U. S. Forest Service, vortexes, vortices on November 20, 2016 | 1 Comment »
psychogeographic landscape cinema
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged affect, film-philosophy, landscape on September 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Andrew Ray over at Some Landscapes has been posting about experimental landscape films, including Chris Welsby‘s Wind Vane, Tree, and other “landscape-generated landscape films”; Sarah Turner’s Perestroika; the “Land Art for the landless” films/performances of Francis Alÿs; and others. Catherine Grant writes about Turner’s hypnotic and haunting Perestroika at filmanalytical. “Films think,” Turner says, “they […]
the Event (or, ‘nature at its finest’)
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged dark vitalism, event, eventology, Herzog, Iceland, landscape, nature, volcanoes 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 […]
the remainder…
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged landscape, object-oriented philosophy, pilgrimage, relationalism, religion on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For an indication of why I’m interested in the “more” that object-oriented philosophers grapple with, the “remainder” beyond what can be accounted for of an object or phenomenon through relational accounts, I thought it would be appropriate to share a few paragraphs from my 2001 book Claiming Sacred Ground.
eco-arts & ‘experimental geography’ round-up
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged eco-art, ecomedia, geography, landscape, performance on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The eco-arts blogosphere has kept simmering through the early summer. Greenmuseum.blog, connected to the excellent online environmental resource and exhibition space Green Museum, has taken on a new look. The blog had recently covered the Earth Matters on Stage EcoDrama Symposium, held at the University of Oregon. Mike Lawler’s EcoTheatre blog also provided coverage of […]
amidst the ruins of Motor City
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged anarchism, landscape, mortality, nature, ruins, urban blight, urban studies on April 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »
As goes Motor City, so should go the world – or at least eco-activists might like to argue that. The archetypal home of American car culture, Detroit, has been decaying for years. It’s now collapsed from a city of two million to less than half of that, and in the process it has opened up […]