WOJNY GRANICZNE: TRANSLACJA I KONWERGENCJA W POLITYCE I MEDIACH
BORDER WARS: TRANSLATION AND CONVERGENCE IN POLITICS AND MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: The text is a translation of W. J. T. Mitchell’s essay included in his book Image Science.Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics (2015). It is an extensive, cultural re-flection on the notion of borders and boundaries in terms of their diverse meanings,functions and interactions that take place across borders. Borders are treated as bothphysical boundaries and virtual or imaginary divisions, addressed here in the sphere ofgeopolitics and media. The axis of his discussions are notions of translations and con-vergence as dynamic, productive and destructive, war or war-like interactions governedby different structures of power. This is what the scholar calls border wars. Mitchell’sexamples include the Israeli-Palestine and North and South Korean borders, divisionsand tensions between language and images. He concludes with an analysis of a film –John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – and the Showtime televi-sion series Homeland (2011–2020), where he investigates virtual, ideological borderwars generated in the Cold War and war on terror periods.

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