Spectacle Earth
Andrew Kalaidjian
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity’s response
What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Andrew Kalaidjian takes up these and other vital questions in
Spectacle Earth, a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments in relation to ecological crises and climate change.
Kalaidjian begins by tracing the long trajectory of environmental aesthetics and natural sciences that have led up to the Anthropocene. He then looks at the lessons learned from artist and activist movements of the 1960s and 1970s before laying out the new challenges in the digital age of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and virtual reality. The result is groundbreaking, offering readers a new media literacy that goes beyond individual therapeutic experience to provide forms of expression that can lead to the sorts of solidarity and connection needed to change the planet for the better.
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attention ecology, environmental media, climate refugees, ecomedia, Imperial Institute, cloud computing, urban environment, Artificial Intelligence, Utopie, antimediation, comparative media, Anthropocene, ecological crisis, autofiction, environmental activism, green media, habitat restoration, AI, installation art, earthworks, ecopoetics, environmental humanities, electronic literature, Global Village, metaverse, environmental justice, global information networks, climate change, digital media, Whole Earth Catalog, species extinctions, natural sciences, Aestheticism, Situationist International, media theory, materialism, Augmented Reality, humanitarian crisis, psychogeography, Virtual Reality, natural disasters, mediacene, video art