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
Water
We now face a global water crisis. Warning signs are flashing everywhere about the increased desertification of the Earth, the industrial pollution of water resources, and the over-exploitation of aquifers. Faced with such a bleak portrait and the fact that environmental and humanitarian challenges are dependent on economic issues and interlinked policies, which are framed by complex laws, the influence of art is relatively modest. Nevertheless, alongside civic actions that we should actively do, artists can give back to water its symbolic and sacred value. Taking a poetical approach to water, the artists and theorists in this issue navigate between aesthetic forms, activist actions, and metaphor-rich analytical thinking. Adopting a resolutely critical perspective, the articles refer to artworks that try to raise awareness about water pollution and climate issues, envisage a restorative justice, and offer new horizons of hope.
Cover: Hannah Rowan
Vessels of Touch, 2021.
Photo: courtesy of the artist & C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan