Not an AVATAR Review: Technology and Environmental Art

So I went to Avatar last weekend.  I figured I’d enjoy the story fairly well, but really, I’d gone simply to see it—to decide for myself if the much-touted cinematic sea-change was all that.  And it was.  Even without the benefit of 3-D, the movie was visually astounding.  Which is probably why the thing I [...]

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 7:35 pm by margot · Permalink · 2 Comments
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More on green & morality…

I’ve a good friend who talks about food having replaced sex as contemporary America’s moral fixation, as a site where we publicly act out our ethical concerns, define our own moral high ground, exercise judgments.  I think he’s largely right and I also think he’s baiting me when he says this.
You see, he knows that [...]

Posted on January 18, 2010 at 12:17 pm by margot · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Enviro-faith?

In today’s Chronicle (1/14/10), Stephen Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, offers an extended parallel between contemporary environmentalism and religion.  He posits that environmentalists give a green rationale to their internalized aggression, guilt, and feelings of unworthiness, while religious folk give a godly shape to those psychological struggles.
Asma grounds this comparison [...]

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 3:47 pm by margot · Permalink · One Comment
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