A work in progress, I created this timeline as a research aid and data storage tool. It lists what I understand to be key events in the development of American environmentalism, car culture and related policy, and of course some of the ads you will find on this blog. It is my hope that the [...]
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Timeline of American Environmentalism and Car Culture – In progress
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Published on May 18, 2009 8:12 pm.What are the characteristics of ‘Techno Nature’?
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Published on May 11, 2009 10:28 pm.“Technonature: Artificiality and Virtuality” – regular layspeak entry forthcoming Seemingly exists in opposition to Organic Nature, Escobar asks whether techno nature could serve us by helping us redefiine our conceptualization of and relationship with nature by virture of our “re-creation of a (different) continuty between the social and the natural?” Further, are technonatures necessarily capitalist [...]
What are the characteristics of ‘Capitalist Nature’
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Published on May 11, 2009 9:34 pm.“Capitalist Nature: Production and Modernity” - regular-speak layman’s definition forthcoming “linear perspective” “realist painting (freezing place from a particular point of view and locating the viewer outside of the picture and thus outside of nature and history)” “objectification of landscape as vista with a concomitant politics of vision-a scopic regime” “initiation of surveillance and monitoring on [...]
KIA Amanti: “Comfortable yet refined”
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Published on May 1, 2009 5:09 am.National Georgraphic August 2007 This ad seems to portray what Escobar terms Capitalist Nature. The expansive vista of the sky frames the KIA Amanti which in turn, through its rear window, frames the sunbather. This ad is composed with a linear perspective focused on the aforementioned elements, as well the angular, modern [read: strictly geometric] and stark white design of the house. [...]
