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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Zone’
Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged amodernism, Chernobyl, ecology, Latour, Mignolo, postcolonialism, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, Zone on December 1, 2013 | 6 Comments »
My upcoming talk at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs comes from the East European strand of my research. The talk will be called “Becoming Tuteishyi: Peregrinations in the Zona of Ukraine, with Walter, Gloria, Andrei, Bruno, and Other Explorers.” The description reads as follows: Drawing on the author’s research and travels, […]
Stalking the book…
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged Chernobyl, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Zone on May 22, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Teaching my film course (especially in its current rendition as “Ecology Film Philosophy”) and the book that goes with it (Ecologies of the Moving Image, which will be publicly available in July) — and especially teaching the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, which serves as a sort of template for the book — makes me feel […]