{"id":8091,"date":"2021-09-30T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=8091"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:19:52","slug":"pcas2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/conferences\/pcas2021\/","title":{"rendered":"PCAS\/ACAS Presentation 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tribalism and Closed Systems of Advancement:<\/s> How Interstellar and Arrival Embody Anthropocentric Ideology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“It wasn\u2019t meeting them…it was meeting you.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Important Quotations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Allyse Knox-Russell examines \u201cfuturity without optimism\u201d in her analysis of the film Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em>. She defines this as \u201ca futurity cleared of fantasies projected from the (patriarchal, anthropocentric) past and thus a futurity radically open to difference and change\u201d (p. 218).<\/li>
  • Allyse Knox-Russell continues \u201cdisaster films like The Day After Tomorrow<\/em> or Interstellar<\/em> that follow a traditional linear plot line wherein the problem of global environmental collapse, represented through the emergence of a singular or contained series of spectacular events, is overcome by the end of the film. Such stories may affirm the ever-abundant resilience and ingenuity of humanity, but viewers are also sent the message that they have no reason to worry or take meaningful action. They are comforted, rather than spurred into action. (p. 215)<\/li>
  • February 6, 2020 Gallup poll that shows 90% of \u201cAmericans are satisfied with the way things are going in their personal life, a new high in Gallup\u2019s four-decade trend. The latest figure bests the previous high of 88% recorded in 2003\u201d (McCarthy).<\/li>
  • Mark Fisher claims \u201cit is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism\u201d (p. 2).<\/li>
  • Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (9\/29\/2021)
    Humans altered their habitat in a significant way, and we couldn\u2019t or didn’t do enough to ultimately change the trajectory, before it was too late. But this moment as sobering as it is, can serve as a wakeup call our children and grandchildren will not know the earth as we do, unless we change the status quo. We’ve got to do better by this planet, and we need to do it now.\u201d (Budryk)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Work Cited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    • Budryk, Zack. \u201cHere Are the 23 Species the Interior Department Declared Extinct.\u201d The Hill<\/em>. 29 Sept 2021. <https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/equilibrium-sustainability\/574510-here-are-the-23-species-the-interior-department-declared><\/li>
    • Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?<\/em> Zero Books, 2009.<\/li>
    • Knox-Russell, Allyse. \u201cFuturity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em>.\u201d Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment<\/em>, edited by Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino, U of Nebraska P, 2018, pp. 213-232.<\/li>
    • McCarthy, Justin. \u201cNew High of 90% of Americans Satisfied With Personal Life.\u201d Gallup. 6 Feb 2020. < https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/284285\/new-high-americans-satisfied-personal-life.aspx><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Tribalism and Closed Systems of Advancement: How Interstellar and Arrival Embody Anthropocentric Ideology Important Quotations Allyse Knox-Russell examines \u201cfuturity without optimism\u201d in her analysis of the film Beasts of the Southern Wild. She defines this as \u201ca futurity cleared of fantasies projected from the (patriarchal, anthropocentric) past and thus a futurity radically open to difference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":7407,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8091","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2HAOx-26v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8091\/revisions\/8096"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}