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    Introductio - Cut to Green: Tracking the Growth of Ecocinema Studies
    Rust, S ; Monani, S ; Cubitt, S ; Rust, S ; Monani, S ; Cubitt, S (Routledge, 2023)
    It has become increasingly clear, in the decade since our frst volume of Ecocinema Theory and Practice appeared in late 2012, that flm can no longer be considered apart from its imbrication in the fabric of the world. Until the close of the twentieth century, it may have been possible to ignore the material connection of celluloid reels with the oil industry, or the fact that drive-in movies depended on paving large tracts of ground. Even then, however, it was difcult to miss the insistent ecological themes that flmmakers returned to over and over in their onscreen messaging. We follow Hegel’s old edict about Minerva’s owl that only fies at dusk ([1820] 1991) when our hindsight helps us understand how the ruin of “frst nature” becomes really apparent only when cinema, along with much of our culture, economy, and politics, moved into the “second nature” of virtual data. The majority of ecocritical cinema and media studies conducted so far has come in this century when, arguably, cinema and other media seemed to have fnally severed the indexical umbilical that attached it to the physical world and become digital information. While Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, published in 1962, gives a respectable start date for the modern environmental movement, cinema studies has taken a considerable amount of time to catch up.
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    Unsustainable Cinema: Global Supply Chains
    Cubitt, S ; Rust, S ; Monani, S ; Cubitt, S (Routledge, 2023)
    Supply chains connect materials and their refining, manufacture, fabrication and assembly, and governance and logistics. These three domains have been extensively examined by ecomedia scholars in terms of goods, but in film we need also to look at the global trade in services, including movement of engineering and design expertise, and the chains of locations, props, costumes and extras, local second units, and subcontractors in postproduction, marketing and transmission. Materials, manufacture and governance of goods and services are further complicated by the circuits of materials, energy and waste that cycle through them, This chapter will focus on the logistical infrastructure underpinning this complex, the supply chain, taking examples from extraction (notably of minerals from waste dumps), fabrication (particularly of optical components and assemblies), film production and the governance of global trade in goods and services (notably streaming). Inspired by work on logistics including the Global Green Media and Logistical Worlds networks and informed by recent neo-nationalist disruptions to the familiar globalisation of the last years of the 20th and first decade of the 21st centuries, the chapter will look at ecocritical dimensions of global trade in media devices, infrastructures and content. It will enquire into the governance of technical standards, economic policy, extra-territorial contract law, financial services, risk management and policing and how they implicate the environment in the socio-cultural and technological practice of film. The chapter will link these observations to individual film productions and to the themes and style of films made in the ‘global studio’
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    ‘Foreword: Otherwise than Conscious’ in Marie-Luise Angerer, Nonconscious: On the Affective Synching of Mind and Machine. Translated by Nicholas Grindell
    Cubitt, S ; Angerer, M-L (meson press, 2022)
    With Nonconscious, Marie-Luise Angerer, a leading figure in the international vanguard of thinkers working with affect, brings us a detailed map of the terrain traversed by affect theory since Whitehead, offering critiques and insights at every turn before presenting the vista perceivable from the heights of its convergence of feminist epistemology, science and technology studies, vitalist and actor-network ontologies, psychology and neuroscience.
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    Virilio et la pensée totale
    Cubitt, S ; Pacquot, T (Etérotopia, 2021)
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    Anthropocene Archival Ethics
    Cubitt, S ; Potts, J (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-09-01)
    This book examines the use and re-use of digital archives in a unique manner, by combining theoretical and practical approaches to the contemporary digital archive.
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    Encountering Angels
    Cubitt, S ; Seomi, H (Busan Museum of Art, 2021)
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    Fugue
    Cubitt, S ; Frieling, R ; Le Tourneau, F (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2020)
    The designs, controls, and conviviality Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has made possible are fugal pre-echoes of a human-natural-technical harmony we sense now as dissonance, but dissonance brimming with the utopian promise of resonance.
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    A Community of Media
    Cubitt, S ; Swartz, J ; Wasko, J (Intellect (UK) and University of Chicago Press, 2021-01-15)
    The collection addresses the emerging roles of media across a wide range of disciplines, featuring contributions from an array of internationally known scholars and practitioners.
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    Mass Image, Anthropocene Image, Image Commons
    Cubitt, S ; Dvorak, T ; Parikka, J (Edinburgh University Press, 2021-01-31)
    These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work.
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    Ecocritique as Transnational Commons
    Cubitt, S ; de la Garza, A ; Shaw, D ; Doughty, R (Routledge, 2020-04-06)
    This book marks the 10th anniversary of the Routledge journal Transnational Cinemas, and its renaming to Transnational Screens.