ABSTRACT
Exploring the constellation of film-philosophy, environmental studies, phenomenology, issues of materiality and digital media studies, “Towards a Natural Screen Philosophy” argues for the necessity of incorporating concerns for the nonhuman natural world into contemporary approaches to screen studies, philosophy and the intersection between them. Drawing connections between the history of Western philosophy and how representations of the environment have shaped human perceptions and behaviors, this essay lays the groundwork for a natural philosophy of the present day’s condition of accelerated climate change and digital screen ubiquity. Moreover, it insists that the genealogy between the philosophical foundations of the Cartesian subject and the utilitarian logic of new digital forms of mediating the environment be understood as a definitive and urgent problem of the social inequality, psychological wiring and environmental crisis that will define the twenty-first century.
