Narrating the environmental crisis: eco(teo)logy, audio-visual discourse and community

Abstract

We intend to reflect on the way in which audio-visual discourses are weaving together the relationships between environmental crisis and the breakdown of social community frameworks. Starting from a hybrid methodology based both on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of art (and ecology) and on narratological analysis, we propose contemplating the field through two main models: mainstream representations based on the repetition of classic narrative structures where the climate threat is a conflict that can be solved by means of heroic intervention, and other complex texts in which what is called for is to rethink an eco(teo)logy focused on the need to reactivate the community.

Keywords

• climatic change
• social frameworks
• audio-visual narrative
• martin heidegger
• philosophy of arte
• eco(teo)logy