I’m breaking down key images from Trump’s 2025 State of the Union—moments capturing a chamber in splinters, where resistance took many forms and silence would have meant complicity.
So many great images in a terrible place.. I love your writing and YouTube breakdowns, they’re really insightful and current! You bring the news to life! Keep up the good work!
It is so easy for us to absorb images and all forms of visual language--even words and phrases designed to paint pictures in our minds. When you add speed to the equation, we become even more vulnerable. I have many colleagues who slow things down and deconstruct these scenes, but they are primarily academics doing it in classrooms and journals. The public is much more savvy at reading the pictures than it used to be, but I'm amazed there aren't more people doing it more systematically in the social sphere.
Yes I hate how an academic can completely ruin their benefit to the broader public solely by speaking in academicese.. We need people like you bringing the visual world to normies with simple words.. Haha I feel like that was so poorly written.. Haha, ah well.
So many great images in a terrible place.. I love your writing and YouTube breakdowns, they’re really insightful and current! You bring the news to life! Keep up the good work!
It is so easy for us to absorb images and all forms of visual language--even words and phrases designed to paint pictures in our minds. When you add speed to the equation, we become even more vulnerable. I have many colleagues who slow things down and deconstruct these scenes, but they are primarily academics doing it in classrooms and journals. The public is much more savvy at reading the pictures than it used to be, but I'm amazed there aren't more people doing it more systematically in the social sphere.
Thanks so much for your appreciation.
Yes I hate how an academic can completely ruin their benefit to the broader public solely by speaking in academicese.. We need people like you bringing the visual world to normies with simple words.. Haha I feel like that was so poorly written.. Haha, ah well.