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Tag Archives: aesthetics and politics
What The Washington Post gets wrong about The Daily Show in China
The April 9 Washington Post ran this blog post by Max Fisher about the unprecedented number of video viewings in China of a recent Daily Show segment on North Korea. (You can watch the original clip Daily Show clip here. I’m having … Continue reading
The Ecstasy of Politics
It’s hard to imagine in the deflated reality of the federal sequester, and as the winners of 2012 (however they define themselves) watch with undisguised glee as the losers (however they are defined) tear themselves apart at the annual CPAC … Continue reading
Bosnian Culture is World Culture: March 4 is Global Museum Solidarity Day
Today more than 200 museums, galleries and libraries in nearly 40 countries on five continents symbolically closed exhibits in solidarity with seven closed and threatened cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More than 20 galleries and universities in North America, 50 in … Continue reading
What If Propaganda Were Cool?
A recent article in The New Republic about the motivational art by Hugh Macleod commissioned for tech start-ups demonstrates an almost-antidote to its more buttoned-down corporate counterparts that are so often and easily parodied. Macleod’s back-of-the-business-card doodles can be a bracing … Continue reading
The Problem of Propaganda
Last week, the Vietnamese government sentenced two musicians on the charge of “anti-state propaganda,” apparently the first case in recent memory that Hanoi imprisoned artists under the charge. But within the month the government put on trial three writers on the same charge of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Communism, freedom of expression, hannah arendt, Hoang Nhat Thong and Viet Khang, human-rights, nature of politics, Nazi, propaganda, Public Diplomacy, repressive regimes, strategic communications, totalitarian regimes, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vietnam, western political philosophy
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A Good Story
A friend in New York forwarded me this MediaStorm Blog post about ethical guidelines for reporting on children in crisis. It’s a valuable resource and worth reading for anyone who has read my Foreign Policy article “Children of War,” which … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Books, children in crisis, combat camera, current-events, Discover the Journey, Foreign Policy magazine, journalism ethics, Katherine Boo, MediaStorm, narrative journalism, objective journalism, propaganda, public affairs professionals, Public Diplomacy
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IKEA Pussies Out in Russia
The Moscow Times recently reported that IKEA, the world’s most recognizable home furnishings brand, recently pulled this image (left) from an online competition to produce the cover image for their products 2013 catalog in Russia. In place of this image, … Continue reading
Riot Girls
Almost everything that needs to be said about the case of Pussy Riot, the Russian all-female punk rock band now awaiting a verdict in a “hooliganism” trial in Moscow, has been said. Nobody seriously doubts this is a political show … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Political Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Maria Alyokhina Yekaterina Samutsevich, nature of politics, politics, president vaclav havel, propaganda, Pussy Riot, repressive regimes, RT, Russia, Russia Today, totalitarian regimes, Vladimir Putin, western political philosophy
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How Dictators Kiss Babies
My recent photo essay in Foreign Policy discussed the use of images of children from conflict zones in political communications and was based in large measure on my experience working at NATO. But it was also informed by a close … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Communism, Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Eun, Kim Jong-Il, nature of politics, Nicolai Ceausescu, North Korea, political communications, politics, propaganda, repressive regimes, Romania, Soviet Union, totalitarian, totalitarian regimes, totalitarianism, western political philosophy
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James Thomas Snyder 