Lectures 15-17
Life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of being--all can define this term
What is Koyaanisqatsi?
Dennis Quaid plays an important scientists in this (regrettable) 2004 classic film
What is The Day After Tomorrow?
Another word for "earth-shaping," this is a feature you unlock after you get your island to 4 stars on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
What is "terraforming"?
This psychological phenomenon is the name of the experience of astronauts viewing earth from space
What is the overview effect?
Professor Neyrat put this famous film into conversation with Ursula Le Guin's "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" in Wednesday's lecture
What is Avatar?
Prolonged exposure to pesticides is an example of this type of threat
What is "slow violence"?
J. G. Ballard's "Concentration City" is an allegory for this feature of the anthropocene
What is "urban sprawl"?
Paul Crutzen argues that the anthropocene began with this invention
What is the steam engine?
Earth's initiation into an infinite universe was the outcome of this 17th century paradigm
What is the Astronomical revolution?
This artistic movement that thinks together the African diaspora with science and technology has existed for a long time and made popular by Marvel's Black Panther
What is afrofuturism?
According to Hans Jonas, to give prevalence to the bad over the good is this disposition
What is a heuristics of fear?
"What makes urban areas so environmentally unsustainable are precisely those features that are most anti-urban" is an example of this type of statement
What is a paradox?
A fascination for post-nature, post-humans, and post-environmentalism can be located in this genre
What is cyberpunk?
According to Aristotle, this is something the earth cannot do
What is move?
According to Prof. Neyrat's lecture from Wednesday, these two concepts are not one and the same
What are interconnection and interconnectedness?
Avoiding ecological disasters only by believing they are unavoidable is, according to Jean-Pierre Dupuy, a core tenet of this belief
What is enlightened catastrophism?
Physicists and mathematicians understand this as a "chaotic system" that can be influenced by small and random things
What is the atmosphere?
According to the Acceleration Hypothesis, this major event is the beginning of the anthropocene
What is World War II?
The two separations of the universe as understood by Aristotle during the Geocentric paradigm
What is the Supra-Lunar and the Sub-Lunar?
As opposed to Mrs. Costello's "sympathetic imagination," this form of autism seen in Le Guin's character of Osden forces him to feel other persons' affects
What is pathological empathy?
This fable gives "form to formless threats"
What is Silent Spring?
According to Mike Davis, this geological feature will allow urban growth to preserve open space and vital natural systems
What are well-defined boundaries?
One may understand the earth as artificial and passive through this metaphorical image
What is a hollow box?
This author is credited for inscribing the subversion of the notion that humans are stewards of the earth
Who is Lynn Margulis?
This is what Sun Ra believed about the possibility of his job to change five billion people
What is impossible?