The Border Wall Imaginary at the End of the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12144095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Stümer (Universitat Heidelberg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Borderlands Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-5655 • E-ISSN: 2159-1229 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08865655.2023.2301082 |
| OpenAlex | W4390691343 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
What can the border wall tell us about the end of the world? As anthropogenic violence fastens its grip, border walls have been increasingly flaunted as a way to mitigate fears about viral, ecological, and human invasion in the name of climate security. The paper suggests that border walls help stage investments in the end of the world that are steeped in a kind of anthropogenic "impasse of the present," (Berlant, Lauren. 2011. Cruel Optimism. Durham: Duke University Press) while framing collective imaginaries about the future. Such walls visually perform an erroneous form of sovereignty that rescripts biopolitical continuity through the fantasy of hegemonic death and simultaneously shield their proprietors from the violent conditions of their own susceptible safety. The paper unpacks these tensions in terms of the entanglement between world ending fantasies, the affective modalities of walling and the continuation of colonial violence. Articulating precisely those defenses and openings that project what kinds of "worlds" and "ends" are imaginable in the first place, the wall as a material and symbolic medium gives form to apocalyptic anxieties as they leak into dominant cultural imaginaries and thereby helps to think through the links between crisis, security, and visual culture
Aesthetics · Fantasy · Framing (construction · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sovereignty · The Imaginary · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Cruel Optimism
Critique of Black Reason
The Promise of Infrastructure
Mohawk Interruptus
The Biopolitics of Feeling
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Cruel Optimism
Europe's Border Crisis
Is Racism an Environmental Threat
Divided Environments
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Modern Social Imaginaries
Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come
Right Moments
Virtual Security
Imperial Dis-ease
Affect and biopower
Racism, white supremacy and Roberto Esposito’s biopolitics through the lens of Black affect studies
Walls and Border Art
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Premediation and white affect
Worlding beyond 'the' 'end' of 'the world
Earth beyond repair
Atmospheric Attunements
Stolen Life, Stolen Time
What Feels More Than Feeling
Introduction
Fighting Invasive Infrastructures
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
État de siège
Humorlessness (Three Monologues and a Hairpiece)
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |