"Its final silence is not a full stop, but an ellipsis - a space of suspended meaning where the audience must imagine the unimaginable." Read my latest in @thebulletin.org 👇 #HouseofDynamite #Netflix #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWar

Reflecting on a fantastic three weeks at UQ @visualpolitics.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @bleiker.bsky.social and team for making me feel so welcomed, inspired, and well-fed!

Here a video of our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social from @nclpolitics.bsky.social discusses her Ph.D. research, focusing on collage as a method to understand nuclear weapons and war. Thanks Emily for your talk & for visiting us. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social (@nclpolitics.bsky.social) discusses collage as method for her Ph.D. research on nuclear weapons and war. Wed 9 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Excited to see that the latest volume of The Journal of Imaginary Research has been published! You can read my contribution below. The volume can be found and downloaded here: lnkd.in/ezUbq4Vr #ImaginaryResearch #AbstractFiction

The latest volume of the Journal of Imaginary Research features a piece titled "Lights, camera, apocalypse: Why the world ends in NYC", where I consider the disproportionate frequency of apocalypse set in New York compared to other global cities. Please take a look and share widely!

On my way to Brisbane to visit The University of Queensland’s Centre for Visual Politics and present a chapter of my PhD, “Fragmented Faces: Representing Nuclear Weapons and War”. Grateful to the @ninedtp.bsky.social for supporting this opportunity.

📣 📣 NEW PUBLICATION "A Cinematic Catalyst for (Re)Thinking Nuclear Narratives" has been published online today. doi.org/10.1080/2162... Huge thanks to our thoughtful peer reviewers and to Critical Studies on Security for accepting our manuscript.

"She is not portrayed as a victim, but as a campaigner. The difference in how these women are portrayed is effective in showing how climate vulnerability is understood". @ckweatherill.bsky.social on climate crisis photography and visual politics

Some photos were "flagged for removal simply because their file included the word 'gay,' including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II" apnews.com/article/dei-...

This beautiful VR film shines a light on the indigenous communities of the American Southwest who continue to suffer from contaminated land and waterways eight decades after the Manhattan Project. www.waysofknowing.us/film/

Our @visualpolitics.bsky.social program is out. We discuss new research with wonderful scholars from different disciplines: K. Brimblecombe-Fox, @emilyfaux.bsky.social, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social and @julietjfall.bsky.social. Join us in person or online. www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

We are look forward to discussing new research with amazing scholars from different disciplines - art history, politics, communications and geography, incl @julietjfall.bsky.social @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @emilyfaux.bsky.social. Join us online / in person www.rolandbleiker.com/upcoming-eve...

During my upcoming visit to the University of Queensland, I will be taking part in The @visualpolitics.bsky.social Visual Politics seminar series. The event will be hybrid, with online and in-person participation welcomed. You can register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...