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On dragons and firewalls

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , on November 17, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just returned from a nine-day trip to China, where I spoke at the “International Symposium on Ecological Images and Media” at Jimei University in Xiamen, and lectured at four different universities (Jimei University, Xiamen Technological University, Shanghai’s East China Normal University, and Shanghai University). My hosts, including Minjiang Scholar and professor Kunyu Wang, lead translator of my book Ecologies of […]

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End of the Interregnum, or just the beginning of its end?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

It’s looking increasingly likely that the last 35 years or so will come to be seen as an Interregnum between two world orders: the Cold War order, which emerged from the ashes of World War Two, and whatever it is that is beginning to envelop us now. The question is whether what is enveloping us […]

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Sigh/n of relief

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , on June 19, 2023 | 1 Comment »

As the world breathes a sigh of relief that this meeting happened at all, ecocritics can wonder about the semiotics of the image framing Chairman Xi Jinping’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Relief : Is this: China as a force of nature? Xi backed by the power of the Earth itself? Blinken […]

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Is there life after ‘big data’?

Posted in Politics, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Big data + authoritarian governance = techno-totalitarianism. At least that’s the equation we’re most familiar with, and the route that appears to be being laid out in Xi’s China, according to this lengthily researched New York Times piece. (To be fair, the authors only use “techno-authoritarianism,” and the titular and subtitular “-totalitarianism” gloss appears to […]

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The Qanization of the world

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 18, 2020 | 3 Comments »

As I’ve been preparing to cover QAnon in my media course (and trying to keep up with it, since it’s really been ramping up ahead of the election), I’ve seriously begun to think of it is a work of evil genius. Let me explain why. For starters, it’s worth reminding ourselves that QAnon was designated […]

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