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Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change

Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change

Kalaidjian, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture

Art Criticism & TheoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813952727
ISBN13: 9780813952727
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Apr 18 2025
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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