Geopolitics + Art
Summary
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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
Immersion
Winter 2026
This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
Cover: doux soft club
bleu de lieu, 2023-2024.
Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists