{"id":8049,"date":"2015-03-09T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:04:48","slug":"appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/03\/09\/appearances\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"

My review of Graham Harman’s recent book\u00a0Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political<\/em><\/a>, has been published online in the journal\u00a0Global Discourse<\/a><\/em>. It’s part of a book review symposium, which will be accompanied (in the print issue) by the author’s reply to his\u00a0interlocutors. The journal has been publishing a lot on Latour’s political theory (see here<\/a>). I especially recommend Philip Conway’s recent piece “Back down to Earth: Reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics<\/a>.” (Ask the author<\/a> for a copy if you cannot access it online.)\u00a0My piece, entitled “Will the real objects of politics please stand up?<\/a>“, can be\u00a0viewed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another recent article of mine,”The Age of the World Motion Picture: Cosmic Visions in the Post-Earthrise<\/em> Era<\/a>,” appears in the mammoth compendium of reports on the state of the art in the religious studies field,\u00a0The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices, and Politics<\/a><\/em>. The 5-volume, nearly 4000-page and 200+ chapter anthology is a tribute to editor Stan Brunn’s heroic persistence in nagging so many of us to provide him with material; from what I’ve seen of it so far, it’s a momentous publication. My article is a remixed outtake from Ecologies of the Moving Image<\/em>, with a focus on five visions “toward a new Earth and a people to come”: 2001, A Space Odyssey<\/em> (1968), Solaris<\/em> (1973), Contact<\/em> (1997), The Tree of Life<\/em> (2011), and Melancholia<\/em> (2011). It can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two more<\/a>\u00a0(very sympathetic) reviews of Ecologies of the Moving Image<\/a><\/em>\u00a0can be read in the British ecocritical journal Green Letters<\/em><\/a> (by David Ingram) and in the Canadian ecocritical journal The Goose<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(by Edie Steiner).<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to\u00a0the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference later this month in Montreal, where I’ll be participating in\u00a0Shane Denson’s wonderful panel on “Post-Cinema and\/as Speculative Media Theory<\/a>,” featuring three\u00a0of my film theory heroes, Steven Shaviro, Patricia Pisters, and Mark Hansen (it comes from Denson’s and Julia Leyda’s Post-Cinema<\/em> project<\/a>); responding to a panel of papers on “Engaging Ecocinema: The Affects and Effects of Environmental Documentaries” (J12 in the\u00a0conference program<\/a>);\u00a0and otherwise perambulating between\u00a0the\u00a0very active Media and Environment<\/a>\u00a0SIG (scholarly interest group) and several others, such as the Contemporary Theory and the nascent\u00a0Film-Philosophy groups.\u00a0I’ll do my best to report here on the SCMS ecomedia goings-on, though I expect that Ecomedia Studies<\/a> may do that better than I will.<\/p>\n

I’m also looking forward to participating in next month’s CENHS (Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences) Symposium at Rice University. The list of speakers is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My review of Graham Harman’s recent book\u00a0Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, has been published online in the journal\u00a0Global Discourse. It’s part of a book review symposium, which will be accompanied (in the print issue) by the author’s reply to his\u00a0interlocutors. The journal has been publishing a lot on Latour’s political theory (see here). 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