Ethan Zuckerman has posted a beautiful piece that stitches together many of the ideas we deal with in How To Win and the Center for Artistic Activism. I can’t recommend it enough:
Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts
It ties together polarization, confirmation bias, the media, David Simon and The Wire, and the need for addressing values and narrative before facts.
I’ll post it here for the sake of archiving: Continue reading
Listening to James Balog I realized there is another point on our spectrum; journalism. At another point is the “political expressionist” and then, somewhere else, is the political artist (which maybe we need a more descriptive name).
Balog brings back reports, takes photos, and shows images of climate change. Most of the affect on power is a non-direct effect of displaying the images and the support of the work.
Steve D., we should talk about mapping this out because I think these distinctions could really help explain.
In The Arctic, A Time-Lapse View Of Climate Change : NPR
Fresh Air from WHYY, March 18, 2009 · Intent on documenting the effects of climate change, nature photographer James Balog ventured into ice-bound regions with 26 time-lapse cameras, which he programmed to shoot a frame every daylight hour for three years. The resulting images — which make up Balog’s “Extreme Ice Survey” project — show ice sheets and glaciers breaking apart and disappearing. Balog calls the melting of glaciers “the most visible, tangible manifestations of climate change on the planet today.”
In The Arctic, A Time-Lapse View Of Climate Change : NPR