October 23, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
Comments Off on Biomorphism (EMI chapter 5)
This week we’ve moved on to the topic of “biomorphism,” which refers to the dimension of life and sensuous interactivity in a film-world – the liveliness that’s found between the passivity of the object-world (the geomorphic) and the human activity … Continue reading
October 23, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
Comments Off on Letting the devil make his own movie
The class went on a field trip to see The Act of Killing last week, which fit our reading of Chapter 4 of Ecologies of the Moving Image better than I could have planned. (That’s the chapter that deals with … Continue reading
October 13, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
Comments Off on Anthropomorphism (EMI chapter 4)
What Chapter 3 did with the world (and, specifically, nature), Chapter 4 does with people (and, specifically, their relation to nature). In particular, it deals with contrasts between a normative, “modern” (western, industrial) relationship to nature and a non-normative one: … Continue reading
October 6, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
Comments Off on Geomorphism (EMI chapter 3)
The following are some notes of relevance to Chapter 3 of the book. I’ve also added a Glossary of terms used in the book (and some used elsewhere), here; I’ll add terms periodically.