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The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest, research and writing on visual culture within the humanities and social sciences.
journal of visual culture is an international, refereed journal which is a site for astute, informative and dynamic thought on the visual.
The journal publishes work from a range of methodological positions, on various historical moments and across diverse geographical locations. It promotes research, scholarship and critical engagement with visual cultures.
Recent and forthcoming contents include:
Mieke Bal on visual essentialism and the object of visual culture
Giuliana Bruno on Sally Potter's 'Yes'
Susan Buck-Morss on the global imagination
Lisa Cartwright on film and the digital in Visual Studies
Sean Cubitt on media, the audiovisual and movement
Georges Didi-Huberman on air
Hal Foster on Visual Studies, art writing and the medium
Anne Friedberg on urban mobility and cinematic visuality
Emanuela Guano on theatricality and telepolitics in the Buenos Aires public sphere
Guillermo Gómez-Peña on La Pocha Nostra
Patrick 'Pato' Hebert on photography and remembering
John J. Jackson on Harlem
Amelia Jones on seeing differently
Alphonso Lingis on Petra
Curtis Marez on Indians, Science Fiction and Near Future Visions
Stephen Melville on Visual Culture Studies
Nicholas Mirzoeff on visuality
W.J.T. Mitchell on a critique of visual culture
Keith Moxey on Visual Studies
Jean-Luc Nancy on Martin Buber and Grunewald's Issenheim altarpiece
Hans-Ulrich Obrist on critical curating
Simon Ofield on Cruising the Archive
Peggy Phelan on performance and live culture
Griselda Pollock on Chris Marker
Mark Poster on Visual Culture as Media Studies
Donald Preziosi on conceptualizing ethics after aesthetics
Françoise Vergès on creolization and Reunion Island
Aurora Wallace on the aesthetics of danger
Alexander Weheliye on Pornotropes
Volume 2 Issue 2 includes responses to Mieke Bal's 'visual essentialism and the object of visual culture' from Norman Bryson, James Elkins, Michael Ann Holly, Peter Leach, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. Mitchell and Griselda Pollock.
Volume 3 Issue 1 is a themed issue on Fantasies of Childhood, and includes contributions from, amongst others, Lisa Cartwright, John Hutnyk, Chuck Kleinhans, Vicky Lebeau, Alphonso Lingis and Lindsay Smith.
Volume 3 Issue 2 is a themed issue on Televisual Space, and includes contributions from, amongst others, Heidi Cooley, Anna Everett, Anne Friedberg, Raiford Guins, Anna McCarthy, Sheila Murphy and Janet Ward.
Volume 4 Issue 2 is a themed issue on The State of Visual Culture Studies with contributions from Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Shannon Jackson, Martin Jay, Georgina Kleege, W.J.T. Mitchell, Marquard Smith and Catherine Soussloff.
Volume 5 Issue 1 includes a themed section entitled 'The War in Iraq and Visual Culture' edited by Suhail Malik. This includes contributions from Alphonso Lingis, Jean Baudrillard, Sharon Sliwinski, Pal Ahluwalia, Johannes Maier, Chris Krauss, Gerry Beegan, Jamal M. Abdel-hai, Suhail Malik, Benedict Seymour, Richard Dienst and Adrian Rifkin.
Volume 5 Issue 2 is a themed issue on Disability-Visuality with contributions from Lisa Cartwright, Lennard J. Davis, Joseph Grigely, Georgina Kleege, Julia Kristeva, David Serlin and Rosemary Garland Thomson.
Volume 6 Issue 1 is a recent themed issue on Translating edited by Mieke Bal and Joanne Morra. This will include contributions from Nora M. Alter, Emily Apter, Mieke Bal, Jillian St. Jacques, susan pui san lok, Joanne Morra, Gary Schapiro and Lawrence Venuti.
Volume 6 Issue 2 is a recent themed issue on Detritus and the Moving Image edited by Amelie Hastie. This will include contributions from Caetlin Benson-Allot, Irene Gustafson and Julia Zay, Amelie Hastie, Scott Higgins, Lynne Joyrich, Peter Limbrick, Lisa Parks, Vivian Sobchack and Melanie Swalwell.
Volume 6 Issue 3 is a recent themed issue entitled 'Notes on Hong Kong, and Other Returns,' edited by susan pui san lok, and with contributions from Alice Ming Wai Jim, Lee Weng Choy, Matthew Turner, Sally Lai, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeannine Tang, Chin-Tao Wu, Tobias Berger, David Clarke, and Sasha Su-Ling Welland.
Forthcoming themed section, responses to Documenta 12, with contributions from Karl Barker (Central Saint Martins), Claire Bishop (University of Warwick), David Cunningham and Stewart Martin (Radical Philosophy Collective), Rachel Esner (University of Amsterdam), Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths College), Anthony Spira (The Whitechapel Gallery), Shep Steiner, Société Réaliste, and Dominic Willsdon (SFMOMA)
Electronic Access:
Journal of Visual Culture is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://vcu.sagepub.com
