Spectacle Earth (eBook)

Media for Planetary Change

Andrew Kalaidjian (Autor)

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2025
208 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
9780813952734 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aestheticism • AI • Anthropocene • antimediation • Artificial Intelligence • attention ecology • augmented reality • autofiction • climate change • climate refugees • Cloud Computing • Comparative media • Digital Media • Earthworks • Ecological Crisis • Ecomedia • Ecopoetics • Electronic Literature • Environmental activism • Environmental Humanities • environmental justice • environmental media • global information networks • Global Village • green media • Habitat restoration • humanitarian crisis • Imperial Institute • Installation Art • Materialism • mediacene • Media Theory • metaverse • natural disasters • Natural Sciences • psychogeography • Situationist International • species extinctions • urban environment • Utopie • Video art • Virtual Reality • Whole Earth Catalog
• ISBN-13: 9780813952734 / 9780813952734