Introduction: Image Politics at twenty

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Acknowledgements

In his role as editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Professor Greg Dickinson has provided crucial support and vital criticism as this forum took shape. For that, I am deeply grateful. I also want to thank the authors—Elizabeth Brunner, Celeste Condit, Robert Hariman, Xinghua Li, John Lucaites, and Kevin DeLuca—for taking seriously the labors of rereading, rethinking, and reimagining.

Notes

1 Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 63.

2 Kevin Michael DeLuca, Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism (Mahwah, NJ: The Guilford Press, 1999), xiii.

3 DeLuca, Image Politics, xiii.

4 For a well-written and recent compendium of the horrors of climate change, see David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2019).

5 “Population, Total,” World Bank, 2019, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.

6 Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006); Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014).

7 Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2018), 1.

8 DeLuca, Image Politics, xii.

9 Ibid., 163.