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Living imperfectly between knowledge and despair: Social impact entertainment, activism, and ‘Dark Waters’

December 9, 2024/in Autumn 2024_#Enough

This article offers an ecocritical reading of Todd Haynes’ film Dark Waters (2019) in relation to questions of slow violence, genre, environmental activism, and what is known in Hollywood as ‘Social Impact Entertainment’ (SIE). The article examines how the film’s rhetorical strategies – ultimately seeking to inspire audiences to take political action – elicit embodied, affective responses to the environmental injustices depicted on screen. Yet, as the article argues, an analysis of the film and the activist campaign that accompanied its release reveals various tensions regarding the potential of SIE films to resist corporate power and effect long-lasting social change.

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Scale, infrastructure, and extractivism: An interview with Lesia Vasylchenko and Istvan Virag on their works in New Visions. The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Exhibition Reviews, Interviews, Reviews

In this interview, the Senior Curator of Photography and New Media at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter speaks with photographers and media artists Lesia Vasylchenko and Istvan Virag about their works commissioned for the New Visions triennial, presented at Henie Onstad in 2023. Vasylchenko and Virag explain how they work with contemporary image production and display technologies, such as synthetic aperture radar images and LED-screens and the perceptual politics associated with these technologies, as well as how they engage with organic materials as resources subject to extraction as well as material witnesses. The interview also addresses how the artists conceptually and practically tackle questions of image resolution and scale, and the artists’ extensive collaboration with scientific knowledge clusters and researchers.

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Conference – ‘Digital Ecologies 2022’

March 14, 2022/in News

From 28-29 July 2022, the University of Bonn, Germany, will be hosting the ‘Digital Ecologies 2022’ conference as a two-day hybrid event – with both in-person and online attendance possible.Organized around the theme “Digital Ecologies in Practice”, the conference encourages scholars and practitioners to explore digital technologies, approaches and methods to engage with the non-human […]

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Introduction: The ring of the true in contemporary media

June 4, 2017/in Spring 2017_#True

by Ilona Hongisto, Toni Pape, and Alanna Thain The editorial process for this special section began before the term ‘post-truth’ was picked up and circulated widely in the summer and autumn of 2016 to address the increasing irrelevance of fact-based politics in the wake of new populisms. Since post-truth is the proverbial elephant in the […]

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National Deleuze Conference 2016, Machinic Ecologies

February 22, 2016/in News

The Annual National Deleuze Scholarship Conference (19-20 May 2016) is a conference intended to bring together scholars, students, activists, artists, and others working on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. In 2016 the conference is organized by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) of the University of Amsterdam. This year the conference will specifically focus […]

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Media zoology and waste management: Animal energies and medianatures

November 8, 2013/in Autumn 2013_'Waste'

by Jussi Parikka In this article I will investigate the relations of media and ecology, arguing that the incorporation of nature and ecology as part of the media theoretical discourse should also be connected to the ecological contexts in which theory is being produced. This means a concretisation of media ecology in terms of its […]

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Scalar entanglement in digital media ecologies

June 3, 2013/in Spring 2013_'Green'

by Sy Taffel Introduction Media ecology presents an emergent, non-representational approach towards the study of media systems. This article seeks to extend the theoretical underpinnings of media ecology by introducing the concept of scale – or more precisely scalar entanglement – as a way by which media ecology can usefully engage with a range of […]

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Painting the town green: From urban teleology to urban ecology in New York cinema, 1960-present

June 3, 2013/in Spring 2013_'Green'

by Brady Fletcher & Cortland Rankin New York City is perhaps the most iconic manifestation of urbanity in the 20th century. While the Manhattan skyline dominates the New York imaginary American cinema has also consistently qualified and complicated this architecturally-determined perspective by re-imagining the city in ecological terms. Over the past half-century many films set […]

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Greening media studies: An interview with Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller

June 3, 2013/in Interviews, Spring 2013_'Green'

by Jaap Kooijman Not often does reading an academic book make you feel uncomfortable, pushing you out of your comfort zone as a scholar and consumer. Greening the Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) by Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller is such a book – an ‘inconvenient truth’ that forces one to realise that […]

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Editorial Necsus

June 2, 2013/in Spring 2013_'Green'

‘Lively, radiant, lush…’ This is how colour authority Pantone Inc. describes emerald green (Pantone code 17-5641), the colour of the year for 2013. Welcome to NECSUS #3_Spring 2013 with a special section on ‘Green’. While springtime is normally an ideal season to evoke the greening of nature, our aim in this special section is to […]

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