"Koyaanisqatsi": per una meditazione visiva sull'ambiente tecnico

Often misunderstood as supporting a regressive and anti-modern environmentalism, Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982) represents, together with the other two chapters of the trilogy, Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002), one of the broadest meditations on contemporary technology. Moving from a consideration of the intellectual influences pointed out by the director, namely Jacques Ellul, it is possible to better understand how Reggio visually articulates his reflection, which aims at overcoming the anthropological-instrumental (subjectivist) understanding of technology (or techno-science) and to grasp the post-humanist potential disclosed by the technological environment.