Surroundings: Media and Environment

Harvard FAS

This seminar investigates the relationship between media and environment, charting their changing and overlapping senses from the 19th century to today. The course both reconsiders the “environmental” in the work of fundamental media theorists and examines how contemporary filmmakers, artists, and writers provocatively blur art and science, the human and the non-human, the cultural and the natural. Questions focus on how climate, economic, and political realities challenge artists to…