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About this video essay:
A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Why The Big Short was great
09:03 Vice, also not bad
11:22 Don't Look Up takes a different approach
13:06 The struggle to storify climate change
14:31 Climate change as a communication problem
17:19 Why the comet just doesn't work
19:55 Simplifying the real problem
25:12 American Exceptionalism
29:07 Self-caused vs. random event
32:14 The pain of a disconnected world
39:31 Epilogue
Sources:
Bruno Latour - Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime: [ Ссылка ]
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World: [ Ссылка ]
Ulrich Beck - Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity: [ Ссылка ]
Ulrich Beck - The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World: [ Ссылка ]
Madeleine Heyward - Equity and international climate change negotiations: A matter of perspective: [ Ссылка ]
Further Reading:
Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: [ Ссылка ]
10 Books that changed my life: [ Ссылка ]
10 More books that inspired my thinking: [ Ссылка ]
My Camera Gear: [ Ссылка ]
Media included:
Don’t Look Up; The Big Short; Vice; An Inconvenient Truth 1 &2; South Park; The Day After Tomorrow
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (London Symphony Orchestra)
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Mullaha – Luxury
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Slow Meadow – On a Bed of Green Blades
Brique a Braq – Du Repos
Slow Meadow – Blue Aubade
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