Geopolitics + Art
Summary
86 – Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Winter 2016
How do the natural and political phenomena that are helping to redefine traditional geographical boundaries reverberate in the visual arts? In this issue, esse addresses the many ways in which geopolitical science views transversal relationships between power and domination, observing the opposing forces that are reshaping the global landscape today.
Editorial
Feature
Architecture of Network vs. Geometry of Separation
After Cognitive Mapping
The Surveillance Economy: Toward a Geopolitics of Personalization
Offshore Havens and Supra-Jurisdictional Space
Surviving Beyond The Green Line
(Im)possible Bouquets
Jimmie Durham: Decentring the World
Reading Contrapuntally: Geronimo Inutiq’s ARCTICNOISE
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Current Issue
Abstractions
Spring Summer 2025
Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.