[Commlist] Synoptique Vol 8, No 1 - Becoming Environmental - published

We are excited to announce that Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film 
and Moving Image Studieshas just released its new issue, 8.1, “Becoming 
Environmental: Media, Logistics, and Ecological Change”, guest-edited 
edited by Patrick Brodie (Concordia University), Lisa Han (UC Santa 
Barbara), and Weixian Pan (Concordia University).

This special issue tackles the most recent debates on the increasing 
entanglements of global economies of extraction and the circulation of 
media. Contributions to this issue expand the understanding of media, 
taking into account how they become constitutive to the environment and 
subject formation within it.

Moreover, this issue includes a separate large festival review section, 
with pieces on events from Montreal and beyond.

Please take a look at the table of contents below and review the 
selection of articles on our site: www.synoptique.ca 
<http://www.synoptique.ca>. We invite you to share any pieces that 
strike you with your peers.

We also invite you to look at our new Call for Papers on “Animating 
LGBTQ+ Representations: Queering the Production of Movement”: 
https://synoptique.ca/cfp-9-1-animating-lgbtq-representations-queering-the-production-of-movement/

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SYNOPTIQUE Vol. 8, No. 1. Becoming Environmental: Media, Logistics, and 
Ecological Change


Introduction

Patrick Brodie, Lisa Han, and Weixian Pan


Peter Lešnik – Michelangelo Antonioni’s Images of the Planet in the 
Anthropocene

Ila Tyagi – Spatial Survey: Mapping Alaskan Oilfield Infrastructures 
Using Drones

Sydney Hart – Senses of Place at the Border: Visual Cultures of Mobility 
at Canadian Airports

Ilia Antenucci – The Making of Urban Computing Environments: Borders, 
Security, and Governance

Solveig Suess – Distributed Resistance, Streamlined Silk


Coastal Media Dossier (edited by Alix Johnson)

Alix Johnson – Introduction to Coastal Media

Liz Miller – The Shoreline

Shirley Roburn – Coastal Communications

Zahirah Suhaimi – Kelong: Politics for Life in the Johor Straights

WhiteFeather Hunter – blóm + blóð


Forum

Liz Miller, with Kim Grinfeder, Evan Karge, and Grant Bemis – 
SwampScares: A Creative Practice of Commoning in Florida’s Swamps

Deborah Cowen and Kay Dickinson, interviewed by Patrick Brodie – A 
Conversation on Media and Logistics


Book Reviews: Becoming Environmental

Léa Le Cudennec – Richard Grusin (ed.) After Extinction

Tyler Morgenstern – Michael Osman. Modernism’s Visible Hand: 
Architecture and Regulation in America

Miguel Penabella – Derek P. McCormack. Atmospheric Things: On the Allure 
of Elemental Envelopment

Miles Taylor – Sara Ann Wylie. Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical 
Bonds


Festival Reviews

Ylenia Olibet – FNC 2018: Festival Gender Politics after #metoo

Matthias Mushinski – Vision Festival at Tufts: Free Jazz/Social Justice

Lola Rémy – ‘Yours in Sisterhood’: Rethinking the Feminist Archive at 
RIDM 2018

Marco Meneghin – Poetics of Change: Soda Kazuhiro’s Retrospective at 
RIDM 2018

Cole Armitage, Victoria Berndt, and Alexandre G. Vermeil – Les Sommets 
du cinéma d’animation 2018: A Network of Animated Bodies

Jordan Gowanlock – Hump! 2018


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