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1. Cave Gave Game: Subterranean Space as Videogame Place

   Jerz and Thomas identify our fascination with natural cave spaces, and then chart that fascination as it descends into digital realms, all in order to illustrate the importance of “the cave” as a metaphor for how we interact with our environment.

   (Source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/cave)

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 10:31

2. #clusterMucks: Iterating synthetic-ecofeminisms

   In the course of examining a number of key concepts in New Materialism, eco-criticism, and feminist philosophy, Melanie Doherty delves into Jamie Skye Bianco’s digitally generated “postnature writing.” Doherty’s rich knowledge of contemporary ecofeminist debates helps to contextualize Bianco’s hybrid performance-based works that draw upon a database of philosophical texts and landscapes, like the Salton Sea and Dead Horse Bay, that have been marred by histories of human misuse.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/clusterMucks)

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:04

3. A Vital Materialist goes to The Lego Movie

   A serious (and playful) consideration of the power of “things,” Christopher Leise reviews Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things through the lens of the Lego Movie. The implied dynamism of the manipulable modularity of the Lego world provides strong resonances with Bennett’s take on “thing-power” and distributed agency, while the crisis in the plot of the Lego Movie offers an apt illustration of the dangers of human exceptionalism discussed in Bennett’s text.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/silly)

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:17

4. Environmental Remediation

   Bridging Superfund sites and video games, Alenda Chang’s essay revisits media- and computation-centered definitions of remediation to extend media and mediation past the pale of digital visual technology. Through a parallel consideration of what’s known as environmental remediation—cleaning up or cordoning off polluted sites, using technological or biotechnological methods—Chang argues that human and nonhuman bodies and ecosystems are equally enmeshed in practices of communication and transformation.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/remediation) 

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:21

5. Where do we find ourselves? A review of Herbrechter's "Critical Posthumanism"

   In his review of Stefan Herbrechter’s Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis, John Bruni addresses the technoscientific and philosophical varieties of posthumanism, and considers the necessity of moving beyond the “dehumanizing” effects of technocentric theories of cultural evolution. This critical project seeks to preserve freedom and agency, rejecting a concept of posthumanism as a side-effect of innovation in favor of one that sees change itself arising from social processes.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/unhumanly) 

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 11:28