Tipping the scales. The Interfering Worlds of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
The article analyzes the poetics of scaling-up and clashing scales in the documentary/essay film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier from 2018. It reconstructs and exemplifies the idea that a poetics of scale can be useful and necessary for a...
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| description | The article analyzes the poetics of scaling-up and clashing scales in the documentary/essay film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier from 2018. It reconstructs and exemplifies the idea that a poetics of scale can be useful and necessary for a comprehension of the Anthropocene following the arguments of Derek Woods, Eva Horn and Hannes Bergthaller amongst others. For example, a poetics of scale can make graspable the tensions and contradictions between the human as a global force – the multiple assemblages of human beings, technologies, other beings and materialities – and the human as an individual. But, as I argue with Hannah Arendt’s observation on the ‘stature of man’ in the space age, smoothly scaling-up to a global, universal point-of-view also reinforces the distanced world view that is at the root of the global ecological crises. I finally argue for an audiovisuality of the climate crisis that connects understanding and realization to activism and climate justice movements. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9c4e7c627ea64d71830bb3ec55c5d76a2025-08-20T02:26:26ZengUniversité de BourgogneInterfaces2647-67542023-12-015010.4000/interfaces.8114Tipping the scales. The Interfering Worlds of Anthropocene: The Human EpochMatthias GrotkoppThe article analyzes the poetics of scaling-up and clashing scales in the documentary/essay film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier from 2018. It reconstructs and exemplifies the idea that a poetics of scale can be useful and necessary for a comprehension of the Anthropocene following the arguments of Derek Woods, Eva Horn and Hannes Bergthaller amongst others. For example, a poetics of scale can make graspable the tensions and contradictions between the human as a global force – the multiple assemblages of human beings, technologies, other beings and materialities – and the human as an individual. But, as I argue with Hannah Arendt’s observation on the ‘stature of man’ in the space age, smoothly scaling-up to a global, universal point-of-view also reinforces the distanced world view that is at the root of the global ecological crises. I finally argue for an audiovisuality of the climate crisis that connects understanding and realization to activism and climate justice movements.https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/8114filmdocumentaryscale critiqueAnthropoceneArendt (Hannah)poetics |
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| title | Tipping the scales. The Interfering Worlds of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch |
| title_full | Tipping the scales. The Interfering Worlds of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch |
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| title_short | Tipping the scales. The Interfering Worlds of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch |
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