{"id":7499,"date":"2014-04-21T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:18:30","slug":"visiting-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/04\/21\/visiting-uc-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting UC Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be participating in the Mellon-sponsored Environments and Societies Colloquium<\/a> Series next Wednesday, April 30,\u00a0at the University of California Davis.<\/p>\n

My colloquium paper, entitled \u201cOn Matters of Concern: Ecology, Ontological Politics, and the Anthropo(s)cene<\/strong>,\u201d is\u00a0available for reading on the E & S website. (It’s a variation of a chapter for a book on “integral ecologies” which is currently in the peer-review stage.)<\/p>\n

The following day I’ll be giving a talk<\/a>\u00a0at the same university. Below\u00a0are the details.<\/p>\n

\"Kirsten_Dunst_Charlotte_Gainsbourg_Melancholia_LarsVonTrier_film_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“From the Age of the World Motion Picture to the Archive, the Cloud, and the Commons”<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 1, 2014 3:00-4:30 pm, Olson 53A<\/p>\n

This talk will skirt across the history of cinema to locate its essence as movement, animation, and transformation. With the aid of the process-relational metaphysics of C. S. Peirce and A. N. Whitehead, we will probe beneath the cinema of eco-trauma — from eco-docs like\u00a0An Inconvenient Truth<\/em>\u00a0to epic fables like\u00a0Avatar \u00a0—\u00a0<\/em>into the materiality of the medium itself, with its dependence on sunlight, fossil fuels, and their photochemical derivatives.<\/p>\n

Is there a cinematic art that acknowledges this relationship between light, image, matter, and form? Amidst the slippery, morphing images of digital media, can we find the beginnings of a post-carbon cinema practice? In the accumulating archive of images and data\u00a0—\u00a0whose materiality is wished away in the nebulous \u201ccloud,\u201d even as it relies on massive server farms, transoceanic cable networks, mountains of e-waste, and growing oceanic garbage patches — where is there a space for the reimagining of a trans-human commons, an aesthetic and ethical practice for a post-carbon \u201cposthumanity\u201d?<\/p>\n

Adrian Ivakhiv is Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont. His books include\u00a0Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature<\/em>\u00a0(2013) and\u00a0Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona<\/em>\u00a0(2001). He blogs at Immanence: Ecoculture, Geophilosophy, Mediapolitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This event is sponsored by Religious Studies with funds form the Paul A. and Marie Castelfranco Endowment; Comparative Literature; Cinema & Technocultural Studies; French; English; Cultural Studies<\/p>\n

For more information please contact: Ted Geier tegeier@ucdavis.edu<\/p>\n

See poster here<\/a><\/p>\n

Image above is taken from Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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