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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘geopolitics’
Sigh/n of relief
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged China, geopolitics, political semiotics, Xi Jinping on June 19, 2023 | 1 Comment »
Wark on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, geopolitics, refugee crisis, Wark on May 7, 2016 | 2 Comments »
McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls “The Geopolitics of Hibernation.” A quote:
A time for grieving, a time for analysis
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged Beirut, fear, geopolitics, global civil religion, globality, hope, media, Paris, political left, terrorism on November 17, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes discussions in social media feel like the internal conversations of a person with severe multiple-personality disorder trying hard to give equal voice, or at least free rein, to their many voices. And I find I can agree with all or most of those voices; and at the same time disagree. In a facebook debate […]