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InVisible Culture is seeking submissions for Issue 42: Thermal Aesthetics in Visual Culture invisibleculturejournal.com/… Deadline: November 15, 2026 Submit to: [email protected]

Now read “The Brutalist (2024): Architecture, Trauma, and the Illusions of the American Dream” by Antonio Francisco Alaminos-Fernández in Dialogues, Issue 40: Diffraction. #TheBrutalist

Issue 40 features “specters and bones” by Ashley Dequilla: photo transfers on birch wood from her 16mm film reckoning with Dr. William Jones, the colonial archive, and shared Filipino & Native American histories. Curated text by Reese Carolina Cuison Villazor. Link in bio

Now published on the journal: Variations for Light and Shadow by Olivier Perriquet. A silent, single continuous shot where a bamboo forest becomes a "diffracting apparatus," turning light and body into a shared, relational imag🎥🌿

Now on our 40th issue: Sandro Weilenmann's essay "In Close Quarters: Archival Reimaginations Between Absence and Abundance" Read here: invisibleculturejournal.com/…

Read on Issue 40: “Painting Against the Colonial Dream: MAHKU and Abolitionist Aesthetics” by Marco Antonio Giovanetti #MAHKU #AbolitionistAesthetics #HuniKuin #Decoloniality #IndigenousSovereignty

Issue 40 is live! Diffraction: when light bends around an obstacle to illuminate what lies beyond it, deviated but undiminished. The guiding metaphor for this open-call issue on visibility, archives, and the obscured recesses of visual culture. #ArtJournal #ContemporaryArt

Now in Invisible Culture: Juntao Yang interviews Nicolas Gourault about Their Eyes (2025), AI, invisible labor, and the politics of visibility. Read the full interview: The Other Side of Algorithms: Reclaiming the Body, Voice, and Labor invisibleculturejournal.com/…

Matthew Moore's essay on Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company” delves into the “crisis of agency” in contemporary middle-class life, exploring how managerial anger, conspiracy, precarity, and authority intertwine. Read the full text on our website 🪑 invisibleculturejournal.com/…

New Exhibition Review on InVisible Culture Off the Grid by Howardena Pindell Review by Kaina Liu 🔗 Available now invisibleculturejournal.com/… #InVisibleCulture #howardenapindell #whitecubebermondsey

Now on the journal: Yuqing Luo on Wang Xu, Between Giants and Snails! Read the full review on our website. invisibleculturejournal.com/… #Sculpture #ArtCriticism #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionReview #VisualCulture #ArtTheory #Materiality

Now on the journal: Dylan Palmer on Chris Marker: Early Film Writings! Read the full review on our website. invisibleculturejournal.com #ChrisMarker #FilmTheory #FilmCriticism #CinemaStudies #FrenchNewWave #AndréBazin #FilmWriting #CulturalCriticism #VisualCulture #FilmEssay

Call for book reviewers Our updated list of reviewable titles in visual culture, film, comics, and global media is now available: invisibleculturejournal.com/…

New review on Invisible Culture: “Soviet Factography and the Politics of Representation.” Read the full essay here👉: invisibleculturejournal.com/…

Please check out Gilbert Braun’s latest review of Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark — exploring how art and politics have always been intertwined through centuries of power, struggle, and imagination. Read the full review on our website: doi.org/10.47761/494a02f6.93…

In “Embodied Attunement and Material Agency” Lisa Gutscher reviews Richard Tuttle’s 2025 solo exhibition “San, Shi, Go.” Read the full review on our website: invisibleculturejournal.com/…

Please check out Crystal Payne's reflection on how the phrase “LAND WORTH FIGHTING FOR” beneath St. Louis’s Gateway Arch reveals a long history of violence, erasure, and belonging. invisibleculturejournal.com/…

For Issue 41, InVisible Culture invites articles and artworks that engage with labor as manifested in visual culture. For details of the CFP, please check out: invisibleculturejournal.com/…

Please check out Maria Cristache's latest review about the book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos. invisibleculturejournal.com/…

In this insightful review, Jennifer Wallis explores The Human Shutter, Robert L. Bowen’s sweeping study of stereoscopic photography as a sensory, cinematic, and historical phenomenon. invisibleculturejournal.com/…