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3. Speculations Environmental Sensualities and EcoPublics Thomas Shevory and Patricia Zimmermann,Codirectors, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival www.ithaca.edu/fleff

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7. 1. Environmental and ecological thinking requires reimagining and reconceptualizing the environment.

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9. 2. Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability necessitates immersion within interconnected, fluid, global contexts. It means redefining the environmental beyond the confining materialities of land, sea and air.

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11. 3. Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability suggests considering transnational, intersecting, embodied, heterogeneous, social and political practices.

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13. 4. Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability suggests the need to catapult across and beyond borders, genres, formats, art forms, nations, ethnicities, nature.

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15. 5. Sustainable development and the environment flow as collaborative, interdependent, and active ecosystems.

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17. 6. Nature is often privileged as a pastoral fantasy, an edenic ideal, a romanticized projection of desire into the uncontaminated and uncontrolled, the unassailable domain of science.

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19. 7. Nature is often represented as neutral and is oversimplified; as a result, questions of power are repressed.

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21. 8. Nature is often confined, safe, tame, remote, ineffable, overpowering. It is often figured in reductionist terms.

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23. 9. False dichotomies are established between the human and the natural, the social and the scientific, the argumentative and the empirical, the United States and the globe.

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25. 10. An ecological/environmental way of thinking entails constantly moving vectors of equality, freedom, social justice, aesthetic innovation, and access to health care, clean water, housing

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27. 11. Environments and ecologies signify a complicated nexus of the social, political, aesthetic, technological, economic, physical, and natural.

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29. 12. An ecological way of thinking demands tracing these complex interactions in order to understand them— and act on them.

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31. 13. Ecology means understanding how things, people, and ideas are interconnected.

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33. 14. Ecology/environment means considering how the senses and communities operate within larger social, political, aesthetic and biological matrices.

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35. 15. The concept of ecology and the environmental are deeply subversive because they dislodge categories that are presumed to be stable. Ecological and environmental thinking mines and explores the conflicts and intersections between the human and the natural.

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37. 16. UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development has redefined and expanded environmental issues to explore the international interconnection between war, disease, health, genocide, the land, water, air, food, education, technology, cultural heritage and diversity.

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39. 17. Environmental sensualities means reconnecting to more collective and emancipated forms for the creation of a public commons

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41. 18. Environmental sensualities imagines locations differently. They are composed with many intersecting layers. They constantly move. They are relational, material, and collaborative.

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43. 19. Environments constitute in-between zones where we actively manipulate, engage with, and negotiate external forces.

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45. 20. In the liminal zones between bodies as active, sensing agents and the environment and the natural world as complex systems in flux, openings emerge. These pathways invent new aesthetic, social, biological, and political spaces through seeing, hearing, touching and tasting.

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47. 21. Rather than hierarchies, environmental sensualities suggests networks, layers, clusters— horizontal, continually forming relationships.

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49. 22. Environments are systems comprising incessant interactions, changes, fluidities, movements, transversals.

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51. 23. Environments are only sustainable if they are heterogeneous, multiple, complex and sensual.

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53. 24. Disturbances and debates can relocate us into a new kind of interstitial imaginary zone which can open up the possibility of joining together to build an energized and contentious public commons.

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