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Against Spectacle? “Crises” and the Infographic
So there’s been a lot of interesting infographics published recently that help visually represent a host of contemporary issue and crises: from Euro Debt, U.S. income inequality, and the increasingly...
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Afflicted Powers
Retort. 2005. Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in an Age of War. New Edition. London: Verso.Despite being a relatively short book, Afflicted Powers is a difficult one to summarize. Retort* sets...
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Critchley Against Escapism
Simon Critchley’s “Mystical Anarchism” article in Adbusters argues against the escapism of communal utopian projects old and new:Perhaps such experiments lacked an understanding of politics as a...
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Visualizing Space and Injustice in Palestine
In an old post about the potential political capacities of the infographic, I wrote: “If Guy Debord was right in highlighting that social relations between people are increasingly mediated by images...
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Narco-Geographies, Part III: Urban Speculation and Spectacle
(Final post in a three-part series, Part I, Part II) The policies that have made Panama into a commercial and financial global entrepôt have also made this small country into an ideal beachhead for...
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