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New book: Ecocinema Theory and Practice
Above: Two instances of wind from Tarkovsky's "Zerkalo" (Mirror), spliced together * New book due Aug 2012: Ecocinema Theory and Practice ‘Most academic film studies professionals don’t take nature...
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Ecopornography, slow violence and the deep, slow art of place
Are Ansel Adam photographic works ecopornographic? Do similar works obscure ecocidal, slow violence? Image remixed from Creative Commons image by Hermes “Nature photographs have become something of a...
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ecology without nature and the eco-cosmopolitan
Cultural philosopher Slavoj Zizek: speaking on rubbish and ecology - 'This is where we should start feeling at 'home' Zizek's popular excerpt from Examined Life (150 000 youtube views) from the 2008...
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New book: Ecocinema Theory and Practice
Just published a couple of days ago: Edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt Published August 25th 2012 by Routledge – 344 pages Series: AFI Film Readers Introduction: Cuts to Dissolves:...
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American nature film: representations of dominion and imperialism
‘The representations of nature in early American cinema reflect an increasingly aggressive assertion of dominion, coterminous with the national expansion of empire… one by one, the presumptuous moral...
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The ‘taxonomy’ of nature cinema and popularising science
Image from ‘Watching Wildlife‘ by Cynthia Chris, Uni. Minnesota Press, 2006. This is a diagram I came across a few months ago in a book called Watching Wildlife by Cynthia Chris. I know the work of...
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The Anthropocene Project 2013-14
An ambitious initiative ‘The Anthropocene Project’ opens this week involving leading thinkers, scientists and artists, from a range of disciplines coming together for an innovative two year study...
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ecopornography and a review of the ecocinema enquiry over 2012
Still from Africa (2012) trailer see Africa trailer here http://vimeo.com/56367550 ‘Nobody, nobody, nobody (not even myself, my supervisors, and my assessor) is seriously going to want to read my...
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‘Lets be clear -The Anthropocene is the ‘age of the sociopath’
“All of this is crucial, because perpetrators of atrocity so often attempt to convince themselves and everyone else that what they’re doing is natural or right. The word “Anthropocene” attempts to...
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art-ecology-politics-land: special Third Text 2013 journal issue
Some of the Hollywood forest community – Sitka spruce, Willow, Birch, Alder and Aspen: 11 March , 2013 A part of my work since 2009 has been involved in bringing the new type of permanent forestry...
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Open Access: why I share my forest-art-land-politics phd online
Image I tweeted from the Digital Repository of Ireland public talk on ‘Open Access to Humanities Data, 7 May 2013, at the Royal Irish Academy “One of the cultural revolutions we’re living through is a...
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