Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life

by Elizabeth Ellsworth, Jamie Kruse, Reg Beatty

This book addresses a significant gap in the otherwise growing literature on hidden curriculums - the relationship between visual representation and the construction of knowledge in educational media. The contributors to this volume explode the myth that the accepted conventions of film, video, and photographic representation are mere neutral carriers devoid of content implications. Rather, they argue, such seemingly neutral forms actually inflect and shape content with particular meanings linked to historical contexts and unequal power relations.

260 pages, Paperback

Published February 20, 2013

About the author

Elizabeth Ellsworth is a writer and artist.  Solid, Broken, Changing is her young adult novel with scifi and cozy hopepunk elements. It's inspired by her experiences of co-existence on a radically changing planet Earth.

With Jamie Kruse, she co-directs smudge studio (smudgestudio.org), based in Brooklyn, NY and Belfast, Maine. Their projects connect daily life experiences to vast, generative forces of geological and cosmological change.