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Zone as metaphor, metaphor as Zone

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

My book Ecologies of the Moving Image takes Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zone, so richly depicted in his celebrated 1979 film Stalker, as a kind of master metaphor for how cinema works and, by implication, how art in general works: it beckons its receiver into following it into a zone where, at best, anything can happen. The […]

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McKibben & the frontlines of war

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2016 | 5 Comments »

I recently found myself in a part of Mississauga, Ontario (a bedroom community of Toronto), in which more than 90% of the visible landscape (excepting the sky) appeared to consist of concrete, in the form of pavement, asphalt, buildings, and such. The remaining 5-10% — rows of evenly spaced short trees, shrubs, a few patches of […]

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