Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies

Author:   Janine Marchessault (York University)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
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9780262549745


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   31 October 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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"When media translate the world to the world- twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man,"" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope. When media translate the world to the world- twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man,"" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope. Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement-to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants. Marchessault shows that Edward Steichen's 1955 ""Family of Man"" photography exhibition, for example, and Jacques Cousteau's 1956 underwater film Le monde du silence (The Silent World) both gave viewers a sense of the earth as a shared ecology. The Festival of Britain (1951)-in particular its Telekinema (a combination of 3D film and television) and its Live Architecture exhibition-along with Expo 67's cinema experiments and media city created an awareness of multiple worlds. Toronto's alternative microcinema CineCycle, Agn s Varda's 2000 film Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, and Buckminster Fuller's World Game (geoscope), representing ecologies of images and resources, encouraged planetary thinking. The transspecies communication platform the Dolphin Embassy, devised by the Ant Farm architecture collaborative, extends this planetary perspective toward other species; and Finnish artist Erkki Kurenniemi's ""Death of the Planet"" projects a postanthropocentric future. Drawing on sources that range from the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes to the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marchessault argues that each of these media experiments represents an engagement with connectivity and collectivity through media that will help us imagine a new form of global humanism."

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Author:   Janine Marchessault (York University)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780262549745


ISBN 10:   0262549743
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   31 October 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto.

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