Deleuze's Geo- is a "science" of violence
and maybe why I'm a cinema snob.
"A number of 'ecological' theories of cinema have emerged in recent years, many of which remain bound by antiquated models of figure and ground. These models typically belong to a pre-cinematic aesthetics of nature, sustaining an image of humanity uninformed by the recent prospect of species self-extinction. We hereby propose a new model for conceiving of this relation, one based upon Nick Land's post-psychoanalytic notion of geotrauma, and which suggests that the earth as ground gives rise not just to territories but moreover to processes of ungrounding. These processes are recapitulated in the human history of a traumatic relation to this (non)ground, suggesting a properly geophilosophical understanding of cinema that observes catastrophism as a genetic principle. Of consequence for any attempt to theorize human artifice and design under the present 'environmental' moment, such an understanding presupposes a thoroughgoing revaluation of creative practice and process. We hereby provide a reading of three recent films in which the figures or iconography of the natural environment reflect this 'revolt' against ecological fixity. Visions of catastrophic environmental change force us to reconceive of the very concept of nature as something fundamentally at odds with our perception of what is natural. We thus combine Land's theory of geotrauma with Deleuze's conception of cinema to argue that the cinematic image testifies to a 'pantraumatic self-movement', one by which the relations between parts forming the conditioned or ecological whole are subjected to a universal ungrounding, and therefore by which something necessarily unconditioned escapes its 'natural' conditions. This geophilosophical emphasis upon escape, flight or deterritorialization should replace the ecological aesthetics of figure and ground with a perceptual catastrophism, disrupting every naturalizing appeal to an harmonic relationship between the human and non-human, cultural and natural worlds."
ref http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/des/2012/00000002/00000001/art00006
introducing geopsychology in the emergent Geomedicine.
Abstract
Temporal and regional variations in psychological processes have been associated with three geological factors. They are geochemical profiles, geomagnetic variations, and tectonic stresses. In the geochemical domain, copper, aluminum, zinc, and lithium may influence the incidence of thought disorders such as schizophrenia and senile dementia. These common elements are found in many soils and ground water. Geomagnetic variations have been correlated with enhanced anxiety, sleep disturbances, altered moods, and greater incidences of psychiatric admissions. The effects are usually brief but pervasive. Transient and very local epidemics of bizarre and unusual behaviors are sociological phenomena that sometimes precede increases in earthquake activity within a region; they have been hypothesized to be associated with tectonic strain. Many of the contemporary correlations between geological factors and human behavior are also apparent within historical data. The effects of geophysical and geochemical factors upon human behavior are not artifactual, but they are complex and often not detected by the limited scope of most studies.
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Geophilosophies and geopoetics (geopoieia)
And thus the field of trauma broached in postcolonial discourse. Geotrauma - and its scientific research. South American geochemical soils contribute to medical research. The wildness of Exile Heterotopias of Raul Ruiz, the crookedness of country and people, body of earth.
Geopsychology and the geopsyche.
Psychogeography is discursively quite facile in comparison - even though it's engendered heated theoretical political debate.
Maybe with some further information - the alterlatino ethico-aesthetic post Lacanian surrealist schizophrenia, political and clinical.
And thus the field of trauma broached in postcolonial discourse. Geotrauma - and its scientific research. South American geochemical soils contribute to medical research. The wildness of Exile Heterotopias of Raul Ruiz, the crookedness of country and people, body of earth.
Geopsychology and the geopsyche.
Maybe with some further information - the alterlatino ethico-aesthetic post Lacanian surrealist schizophrenia, political and clinical.
