[Frameworks] Fwd: Ernest Callenbach's last words to an America indecline

[Gene Youngblood]

A loss I wasn’t aware of. Knew him in the ‘70s. Film Quarterly and all the other books and journals at Larry Edmund’s bookstore were my film school. For a trenchant critique of ECOTOPIA see Frederic Jameson’s magisterial ARCHEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE, which, among other things, demolishes the notion of utopia as blueprint. Thanks for the tip about “Epistle.” I’m eager to read it, since Chick was surely aware of Jameson’s admiration for his novel.  

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Subject: [Frameworks] Fwd: Ernest Callenbach's last words to an America indecline

I received this from a friend.  Many frameworkers will mourn his passing.  Film Quarterly was one of the best journals under his leaderhship.


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  For most of those on this list, Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's classic novel, ECOTOPIA needs no introduction. I'd known Callenbach since the 1960s through his magazine, Film Quarterly, and also as an acquantance in the Bay Area, where we ran into each other every so often for many years. I admired him and his work greatly, and have long been convinced that ECOTOPIA will find a second life as a blueprint for thought and action as we heave into increasingly uncertain times.

  It was only when Lou Judson sent me this article today that I learned that, sadly, "Chick" had passed away on April 16th. You can read his powerful, final essay, "Epistle to the Ecotopians," on Tom Englehardt's excellent TomDispatch website:

  http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175538/tomgram%3A_ernest_callenbach%2C_last_words_to_an_america_in_decline/#more

  =d=



-- Sandy


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