"Rebooting the End of the World": Teaching Ecosophy through Cinema

Autor/in	Cole, David R.
Titel	"Rebooting the End of the World": Teaching Ecosophy through Cinema
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55 (2023) 10, S.1170-1180 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cole, David R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2022.2071261
Schlagwörter	Films; Teaching Methods; Environmental Education; Educational Philosophy; Climate; Science Fiction; Scientific Research; Social Systems; Social Change; Ecology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Film; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Klima; Social system; Soziales System; Sozialer Wandel; Ökologie
Abstract	The global pandemic has pushed many of us to online streaming services. A particular genre in these services is the 'end of the world' science fiction film, in and through which the speculated results of processes such as climate change are depicted. CGI technology is frequently deployed to create images of the end of the world, which is a backdrop to the narrative of, 'saving ourselves amidst the ruins'. This philosophy of education essay will critically examine ten films in order to: (1) Explain how 'the end of the world' images connected to processes such as climate change, obscures and displaces attention from the real, scientifically proven processes that are not so entertaining, but are still deadly. The images are created by capital and its machines for audience attention and have little to do with real social change. Science sits in an ambiguous position in this paper in that the real processes of climate change proven by science may be funded by capitalist mechanisms that can also be their cause. (2) Introduce a reformulated notion of ecosophy from the work of Félix Guattari, Murray Bookchin, Arne Naess and Andre Gorz. This essay will suggest that ecosophy has the potential to teach the underlying split between depictions of the end of the world through the capitalist machine and the real social change necessary under climate change. Ecosophy is in the context of this essay a specific conceptual construction designed for teaching about climate change through cinema. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01