This is a slightly evolved out-take from my recent Vermont Humanities talk, which can be viewed here. Netflix’s 3 Body Problem was remarkably entertaining, I thought, but the whole San-Ti plot line is built around a basic ecological fallacy. Let me explain. (And I’m referring here to the Netflix series, not necessarily to the novel […]
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The 3 Body Problem’s Ecological Fallacy
Posted in Eco-theory, Science & society, tagged 3 Body Problem, anthropocentrism, Cixin Liu, ecocriticism, ecological fallacy, ecotheory, Netflix, science fiction, speculative fiction, Three Body Problem, zero-order humanism on July 1, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Post-Cinematic Affect in the era of plasticity
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged capitalism, critical theory, Cubitt, film, Malabou, media, science fiction, SF, Shaviro on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s probably inappropriate to review a book about four films when one has only seen one, and by far the shortest (it’s a music video), of the four. So this isn’t a review so much as an appreciation of Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect, along with some half-digested notes I made while reading it, but which […]
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