Call for Papers: Issue 40, Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
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Call for Papers: Issue 39: The Copy
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Call for Papers: Issue 38: Ecologies of Excess
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Call for Papers: Issue 37: Automated Images
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Call for Papers: Issue 36: The Matter of Whiteness
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Call For Papers: Issue 35, Accessing/Assessing Fashion
On the website for his eponymous luxury fashion label, Telfar Clemens says of his products: “It’s not for you—it’s for everyone.” Eschewing conventional markers of luxury production, Clemens underwrites this claim through TELFAR’s “Bag Security Program…
Introduction / Issue 33: After Douglas Crimp
Click here for the Table of Contents by Peter Murphy Featured images: T.L. Litt, Douglas Crimp, New York, 1990. (L) and Douglas Crimp, New York, 1990. (R). Images courtesy of the artist. When it was time to decide the topic for Issue 33 of InVisible Cu…
Introduction / Issue 32 Rest and the Rest: The Aesthetics of Idleness
Artwork by contributor Nina Luostarinen. For Issue 30, the editorial board of InVisible Culture is honored to present a special introduction by Dr. Jean Ma. “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do,” the old saying goes, or in another vers…
Call for Papers: Issue 34, InVisible Memes for Cultural Teens
For our 34th issue, Invisible Culture seeks scholarly articles and creative works that approach internet memes as aesthetic, cultural, and political objects of study. Memes have been discussed largely in their communicative and participatory capacities…
Call for Papers: Issue 33, After Douglas Crimp
For its thirty-third issue, InVisible Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that engage with the legacy of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019). Douglas was foundational to InVisible Culture and its institutional home, the Graduate Program in Visu…
Table of Contents / Issue 31: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby
Joel Burges, Alisa V. Prince, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker, “Introduction: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby” Hazel V. Carby, “Black Futurities: Shape-Shifting beyond the Limits of the Human” Alanna Prince and Alisa V. Prince, “What’…
InVisible Culture‘s Statement on Racial Injustice
In light of the widespread and ongoing protests sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless others, InVisible Culture would like to announce its support of Black Lives Matter and all organizations and movements th…
InVisible Culture’s COVID-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in the lives of the readers, contributors, and editors of InVisible Culture. As a graduate student-run journal, we are sympathetic to the impacts of these challenging times on our contributors. Writing…
Call For Papers : Issue 32, Rest and the Rest, Aesthetics of Idleness
For its thirty-second issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the aesthetics of idleness. This issue will also feature an introduction by and an interview with Jean M…
Introduction / Issue 30: Poetics of Play
Artwork by contributor Iasmin Omar Ata. For Issue 30, the editorial board of InVisible Culture is honored to present a special introduction by Dr. Aubrey Anable. In my book, Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect, I make the claim that video gam…
Introduction / Issue 29 : Beyond Love
Featured image: Still from “The Origin Tapes” by contributor Beina Xu Before we can get beyond love, we would like to share how we got there. When we decided the twenty-ninth issue of InVisible Culture should address the idea of love, one of our m…