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Phenomenology and Ecology: Art, Cities, and Cinema in the Pandemic
Phenomenology and Ecology: Art, Cities, and Cinema in the Pandemic

Author(s): Alice Cortés, Matthew Crippen
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Phenomenology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: COVID-19; Cities; Dystopian Movies; Ecological Psychology; poiesis;

Summary/Abstract: COVID-19 infects cities, here grasped as quasi-living functioning systems, and the changes inflicted can poetically open us to certain things. Drawing on ecological psychology, we maintain that this brings people into contact with different realities depending on their overall wellbeing, arguing that the aesthetic experience of cities accordingly varies. We then consider iterations of these ideas in dystopian cinema, which portrays global threats altering human relations with technology, art, and the world.

  • Issue Year: 61/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-41
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English