October 24, 2020
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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I haven’t followed up on the last post here on e2mc for the simple reason that the blog has hardly any followers right now (it’s been largely inactive since I used it alongside my film/media course in 2013). But since … Continue reading
August 27, 2020
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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This space will soon become a supplementary space — a kind of “annex” — for sharing things related to the Fall 2020 University of Vermont class “Media Ecologies and Cultural Politics.” The previous version of the course was taught in … Continue reading
November 18, 2015
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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I’m currently teaching an intermediate-level undergraduate course called “Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media,” or “ELAM” for short. The class covers many styles and formats of literature, arts (including music), and media work that engage in various ways with environmentally/ecologically oriented thematics … Continue reading
June 12, 2015
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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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 … Continue reading
January 17, 2014
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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I’ve begun a YouTube playlist entitled “Ecomedia,” where I’ll be sharing ecologically relevant PSAs, eco-art videos, and other works relevant to the broad and loose category encompassed by its title. Access it here. Feel free to “like” it, subscribe to … Continue reading
November 13, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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These are further notes on Chapter 6 of EMI… 1. Trauma and the eco-image One of the themes of this chapter is the connection between films about ecological disaster — real, imagined, or potential (future disaster) — and films about … Continue reading
November 2, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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The second week of the animality and “biomorphism” chapter (chapter 5) moved us into an exploration of human-animal interactions and human “becomings-animal.” A screening of Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” (discussed extensively in the chapter) was supplemented by bits and pieces … Continue reading
October 23, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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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