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
Portfolios
Off-Features
Columns
Reviews
Current Issue
Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas