Www.ithaca.edu/fleff. Speculations Environmental Sensualities and EcoPublics Thomas Shevory and Patricia Zimmermann,Codirectors, Finger Lakes Environmental.

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SpeculationsEnvironmental Sensualities

and EcoPublics

Thomas Shevory and Patricia Zimmermann,Codirectors,Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

www.ithaca.edu/fleff

How

is this piece

environmental?

1.

Environmental and ecological thinking

requires reimagining and reconceptualizing

the environment.

How

is this piece

environmental?

2.

Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability

necessitates immersion within interconnected, fluid, global contexts.

It means redefining the environmental

beyond the confining materialities of land, sea and air.

How

is this piece

environmental?

3.

Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability

suggests considering transnational, intersecting, embodied, heterogeneous,

social and political practices.

How

is this piece

environmental?

4.

Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability

suggests the need to catapult

across and beyond borders, genres, formats, art forms,

nations, ethnicities, nature.

How

is this piece

environmental?

5.

Sustainable development and the environmentflow

as collaborative,

interdependent, and

active ecosystems.

How

is this piece

environmental?

6.

Nature is often privileged as a pastoral fantasy,

an edenic ideal, a romanticized projection of desire

into the uncontaminated and uncontrolled, the unassailable domain of science.

How

is this piece

environmental?

7.

Nature is often represented

as neutral and is oversimplified;

as a result, questions of power are repressed.

How

is this piece

environmental?

8.

Nature is often confined,

safe, tame,

remote, ineffable,

overpowering. It is often figured in reductionist terms.

How

is this piece

environmental?

9.

False dichotomies are established

between the human and the natural, the social and the scientific,

the argumentative and the empirical, the United States and the globe.

How

is this piece

environmental?

10.

An ecological/environmental way of thinking entails

constantly moving vectors of equality, freedom,

social justice, aesthetic innovation,

and access to health care, clean water, housing

How

is this piece

environmental?

11.Environments and ecologies

signify a complicated nexus of

the social, political,

aesthetic, technological,

economic, physical,

and natural.

How

is this piece

environmental?

12.

An ecological way of thinking

demands tracing

these complex interactions in order

to understand them—and act on them.

How

is this piece

environmental?

13.

Ecology means

understanding how

things, people, and ideas are interconnected.

How

is this piece

environmental?

14.

Ecology/environment means

considering how the senses and communities

operate within larger

social, political, aesthetic and biological matrices.

How

is this piece

environmental?

15.

The concept of ecology and the environmental

are deeply subversive because they dislodge

categories that are presumed to be stable.Ecological and environmental thinking

mines and explores the conflicts and intersections

between the human and the natural.

How

is this piece

environmental?

16.

UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development has redefined and expanded

environmental issues to explore

the international interconnection between

war, disease, health, genocide, the land, water, air, food, education, technology, cultural

heritage and diversity.

How

is this piece

environmental?

17.

Environmental sensualities means

reconnecting to

more collective and emancipated forms for the creation

of a public commons

How

is this piece

environmental?

18.

Environmental sensualities imagines

locations differently.

They are composed with many intersecting layers.

They constantly move. They are relational, material, and collaborative.

How

is this piece

environmental?

19.

Environments constitute

in-between zones where we actively

manipulate, engage with,

and negotiate external forces.

How

is this piece

environmental?

20.

In the liminal zones between bodies

as active, sensing agents and the environment and the natural world

as complex systems in flux, openings emerge.

These pathways invent new aesthetic, social, biological, and political spaces through seeing, hearing, touching and

tasting.

How

is this piece

environmental?

21.

Rather than hierarchies, environmental sensualities

suggests networks, layers, clusters—

horizontal, continually forming

relationships.

How

is this piece

environmental?

22.

Environments are

systems comprising

incessant interactions, changes, fluidities,

movements, transversals.

How

is this piece

environmental?

23.

Environments are only sustainable

if they are

heterogeneous, multiple, complex and sensual.

How

is this piece

environmental?

24.

Disturbances and debates can relocate us

into a new kind of interstitial imaginary zone which can open up

the possibility of joining together to build

an energized and contentious public commons.

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is this piece

environmental?

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