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The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

—Ai Weiwei (2012)

The image on the cover of the paperback edition, Iron Ore Landscape by Fred Williams, confronts the viewer with the vastness of an Australian landscape. Williams upset Western visual conventions by incorporating indigenous aesthetics that include multiple perspectives, visual planes, and a tilted horizon. With no obvious focal point, framing, foreground, or way to measure distance, the viewer is “unmoored” and encouraged to experience being in the landscape with an overwhelming sense of space and an infinite horizon. Scholars encountering global perspectives may experience something similar.