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New Lives of Images: conversation with Am Johal

Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

On November 20, Am Johal and I held a book launching conversation for The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds. The event took place at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver. A podcast from the event is being prepared for Below the Radar: A Knowledge Democracy Podcast. […]

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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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The cosmopolitics of Herzog’s bears

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2015 | 1 Comment »

One of the films that gets a lengthy treatment in my book Ecologies of the Moving Image is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, about the death of Timothy Treadwell at the hands of a brown bear in Alaska. I characterized it there as a complex and nuanced film that provides a series of somewhat contradictory — but cognitively and […]

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