Geopolitics
The Unphotographable Soul: Poetry as Resistance in the Hyper-Visible Wars of Imperial Aggression
The death of Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi in an Israeli strike shows how poetry can witness the emotional and traumatic dimensions of war that visual imagery often flattens into mere spectacle. This tragic event brutally exposes the West's selective commodification of suffering, where a nation's soul is silenced but its artists become posthumous vessels for a global north audience to consume grief from a safe distance.
