Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the interested public). The course is centrally concerned with the present “global moment,” and the following can be considered a short take on […]
Posts Tagged ‘trauma’
Munich surf
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged art, Bron Taylor, documentary, film, surfing, trauma, urban nature, war on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Things to do on a Sunday in Munich… 1. Find where nature and culture (river and engineering) slam into each other in a passionate wave. Ride it. Observations: To enjoy it at all, you have to be good. Some of these guys (and women) are really good. If you stay up for more than the […]
cataclysmic eventology
Posted in Cinema, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, Derrida, ecoapocalypse, eventology, Nagarjuna, Resnais, trauma on April 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Hiroshima mon amour (dir. Alain Resnais, 1959) In my reply to kvond’s and Meg’s comments on the Event, I alluded to a quote from Derrida’s Cinders, which I thought would be worth posting, especially since I can’t find any reference to it online and I don’t have the book handy to check it. “At what […]