Ecocritical media arts and the war on terra

Cubitt, Sean

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Title

Ecocritical media arts and the war on terra

Author(s)

Cubitt, Sean

Issue Date

2021-10-26

Keyword(s)

• ecocritique
• social change
• ecology
• human environmental interaction

Abstract

Ecocritique accepts, as it must, that humans and environments have been ripped apart historically, sociologically, and aesthetically. But it also recognizes that because we have become strangers, dialogue between humans and environments is possible as it could not be if we were all one universal flux. Because of our mutual alienation, there are endless opportunities for misunderstanding when we capture, store, and process what we confront as Nature. Contemporary economic and political conditions driving ever more terrifying inequalities of wealth and power create the crisis implicit in ecocritique. The critical functions of art, which in these circumstances implies technical and creative aesthetic and political practice, concern the construction of a “we” that embraces the human and non- human victims of ecocide. The master’s tools might dismantle the master’s house, but can they build a different dwelling? Where are the practices that can produce more-than- human social change?

Series/Report Name or Number

Media-N, vol. 17, issue 2

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text

Language

en

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i2.761

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• Copyright 2021 Sean Cubitt
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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