On the Ecocene, the Chthulucene, the Ecozoic, and other Holocene successor terms The term “Anthropocene” has come to be accepted among many intellectuals as the best, or perhaps least worst, name for the geological present, when human activities have come to dominate the planet. It’s still debated among geologists, with “Holocene” or “Late Holocene” preferred […]
Posts Tagged ‘utopia’
After the Anthropocene, the deluge?
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, Cenozoic, Chthulucene, dystopia, Ecocene, ecotopia, Ecozoic, futures, futurism, futurology, imagination, Late Holocene, pluriverse, terminal Cenozoic, Thomas Berry, utopia on August 4, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Cinemas of the Not-Yet
Posted in Cinema, tagged film, heterotopia, utopia on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another remixed outtake/spinoff from my Ecologies of the Moving Image book project has come out, this time in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, in a special theme issue on “Imagining Ecotopia.” My piece is called “Cinema of the Not-Yet: The Utopian Promise of Film as Heterotopia.” Here’s the abstract: