An Anti-geopolitical Eye: Maggie O'Kane in Bosnia, 1992-93

Tuathail, Gearóid Ó

doi:10.1080/09663699650021873

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“…(Paglia, 1994, p. xi) In this section we draw on the dynamic duo of Apollo and Dionysus to explore Google Earth's alluring and oftentimes bizarre images, seductive interface, incitement of feverous online discussions, and intertwining of the political and the poetic. 4 To do this, we focus on the following: first, the claim that Google Earth is a collectively used 'digital peep-box'; second, the idea that Google Earth's grip on users lies not so much in its ability but rather its failure to clearly reveal a visible and legible world; and third, by considering Google Earth as exemplary of what Gearóid Ó Tuathail (1996) calls an 'anti-geopolitical eye', we argue Google Earth challenges our usual (that is, Foucauldian) understandings of panoptic power. Finally, we discuss the ways in which Google Earth can be understood as an enigmatic and aesthetic artifact that prompts us to consider a ''significant disjunction between the politics and ethics of cultural study" (Dean, 2002, p. 31).…”

Section: Surfing Under the Influence Of Google Earthmentioning

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Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth

Kingsbury¹,

Jones²

2009

Geoforum

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a b s t r a c tThis paper argues, following Friedrich Nietzsche, that recent evaluations of Google Earth uncritically privilege the product's Apollonian determinations at the expense of its Dionysian uncertainties. Specifically, when we understand Google Earth as a virtual globe composed of surveyed panoramas, sober rationalization, dystopic control, and transparent order -or, even, as a tool for participation and empowermentwe undersell its capacities as an alluring digital peep-box, an uncertain orb spangled with vertiginous paranoia, frenzied navigation, jubilatory dissolution, and intoxicating giddiness. We argue that the former interpretations not only risk foreclosing our theorizations about how Google Earth is actually used in various ways and different contexts, they also reproduce a one-dimensional and conservative reading of technology that can be traced back (at least) to the writings of Theodor Adorno. By drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin (Adorno's critic and pen pal for more than a decade) we aim to 'go beyond Apollo and Adorno' by illustrating the extent to which Apollonian order and Dionysian love makes Google Earth go round. To do this, we examine Google Earth as a ''digital peep-box" with an online collective that revels in its ''Spot the Black Helicopter" competitions; illuminated profanities; alien and giant insect invaders; naked sunbathers; and crashed transport planes in Darfur.

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Section: Surfing Under the Influence Of Google Earthmentioning

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Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth

Kingsbury¹,

Jones²

2009

Geoforum

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“…Even mainstream media, however, can also help to disrupt and challenge 'Western geopolitical scripts', thereby contributing to 'antigeopolitics' or 'counter-geopolitics' narratives, as in the case of some media coverage of wars in Bosnia. 28 The above research shows that geopolitical framings can structure, as well as be challenged by, media scripts. In turn, the media scripts can (re)produce and circulate geopolitical understandings as well as unsettle them.…”

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Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis

Gong

Billon

2014

Geopolitics

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This paper analyses the role of news media in (re)producing geopolitical narratives of food insecurity in relation to the 2007-08 global food price spike. News content and textual analysis suggests that the media's representation of the food price spike is partly framed by Western geopolitical anxieties of the 'threatening rise of Asia', and features 'fast growing' Asian appetites among the main culprits of the crisis. Seeking to explain the widespread circulation of such representation, this paper analyzes media-source relationship within the context of market-driven journalism, and suggests that the changing role of news media has in turn contributed to a rapid and uncritical circulation of elite-based interpretation of, and neoliberal geopolitical approach to, food security.The paper points at the importance of critical enquiries into geopolitical representations of food insecurity and of opening media space for a 'counter-geopolitics of food security'.

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“…The near-impossibility of travel to FATA by journalists and researchers outside or inside of Pakistan means that these reports give a rare glimpse of life on the ground. These shared stories of the women, children, and men of FATA "disturbs and disrupts the hegemonic foreign policy gaze" 64 , and refocuses the lens of the White House's geographical imagination. Drone warfare in Pakistan, just like the "war on terror" more generally, is not a universal experience 65 : it is differentially distributed and violently uneven, split between suburban pilots that sit in air-conditioned trailers and scan video screens, adjusting their "soda straw" digital view of the world with a joystick, and the everyday experiences told by the people of FATA.…”

Section: The Double Tapmentioning

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Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone Warfare

Shaw

2013

Geopolitics

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This paper critically assesses the CIA's drone program and proposes that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving an increasingly paramilitarized U.S. national security strategy. The paper suggests that large-scale ground wars are being eclipsed by fleets of weaponized drones capable of targeted killings across the planet. Evidence for this shift is found in key security documents that mobilize an amorphous war against vaguely defined al-Qa'ida "affiliates". This is further legitimized by the White House's presentation of drone warfare as a bureaucratic task managed by a "disposition matrix". Such abstract narratives are challenged through the voices of people living in the tribal areas of Pakistan. What I call the Predator Empire names the biopolitical power that catalogues and eliminates threatening "patterns of life". This permanent war is enabled by a topological spatial power that folds the environments of the "affiliate" into the surveillance machinery of the Homeland.

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An Anti-geopolitical Eye: Maggie O'Kane in Bosnia, 1992-93

Cited by 99 publications

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Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth

Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth

Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis

Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone Warfare

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