Like Stories of Old | Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change? @LikeStoriesofOld | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 47 minutes ago.
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About this video essay:
A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Why The Big Short was great
09:03 Vice, also not bad
11:22 Don't Look Up takes a different approach
13:06 The struggle to storify climate change
14:31 Climate change as a communication problem
17:19 Why the comet just doesn't work
19:55 Simplifying the real problem
25:12 American Exceptionalism
29:07 Self-caused vs. random event
32:14 The pain of a disconnected world
39:31 Epilogue
Sources:
Bruno Latour - Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime: amzn.to/3o0kmLo
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World: amzn.to/3u1NfuA
Ulrich Beck - Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity: amzn.to/35fs5yA
Ulrich Beck - The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World: amzn.to/3Iv4to6
Madeleine Heyward - Equity and international climate change negotiations: A matter of perspective: researchgate.net/publication/228979376_Equity_and_international_climate_change_negotiations_A_matter_of_perspective
Further Reading:
Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list
10 Books that changed my life: kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life
10 More books that inspired my thinking: kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking
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Media included:
Don’t Look Up; The Big Short; Vice; An Inconvenient Truth 1 &2; South Park; The Day After Tomorrow
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Music:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (London Symphony Orchestra)
Lights & Motion – Ghost of You
Mullaha – Luxury
Slow Meadow – A Distant Glow
Madron – Without Illusion
Slow Meadow – On a Bed of Green Blades
Brique a Braq – Du Repos
Slow Meadow – Blue Aubade
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Additional Music:
Dear Gravity – Fire Sleeper
Borrtex - Light
Dear Gravity – The Collector
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Support this channel: patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld
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About this video essay:
A critical review of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and use promo code likestoriesofold
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Why The Big Short was great
09:03 Vice, also not bad
11:22 Don't Look Up takes a different approach
13:06 The struggle to storify climate change
14:31 Climate change as a communication problem
17:19 Why the comet just doesn't work
19:55 Simplifying the real problem
25:12 American Exceptionalism
29:07 Self-caused vs. random event
32:14 The pain of a disconnected world
39:31 Epilogue
Sources:
Bruno Latour - Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime: amzn.to/3o0kmLo
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World: amzn.to/3u1NfuA
Ulrich Beck - Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity: amzn.to/35fs5yA
Ulrich Beck - The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World: amzn.to/3Iv4to6
Madeleine Heyward - Equity and international climate change negotiations: A matter of perspective: researchgate.net/publication/228979376_Equity_and_international_climate_change_negotiations_A_matter_of_perspective
Further Reading:
Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list
10 Books that changed my life: kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life
10 More books that inspired my thinking: kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking
My Camera Gear: kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear
Media included:
Don’t Look Up; The Big Short; Vice; An Inconvenient Truth 1 &2; South Park; The Day After Tomorrow
Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv
Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com
Music:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (London Symphony Orchestra)
Lights & Motion – Ghost of You
Mullaha – Luxury
Slow Meadow – A Distant Glow
Madron – Without Illusion
Slow Meadow – On a Bed of Green Blades
Brique a Braq – Du Repos
Slow Meadow – Blue Aubade
Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252
Additional Music:
Dear Gravity – Fire Sleeper
Borrtex - Light
Dear Gravity – The Collector
