Bethany Fincher's latest review explores how the sonic excesses of loud volume, noise, and screams might destabilize representational frameworks in an effort to sense humanity’s uneven, embodied implication in the myriad systems embroiled in climate crisis. More in website.

In our latest Issue 38: Ecologies of Excess, Catalina Segú considers crying as one such constitutive excess—evidence of the body’s “watery constitution,” as Segú puts it, which belies what Astrida Neimanis calls the “dry myth” of “discrete individualism.” More on website.

Through fragmented memories, photographs, and personal anecdotes, the elusive nature of a father’s life—one marked by reticence, social activism, and an enduring obsession with land is explored in this reflective piece by Jey Sushil. More on website.

With Issue 40, “Diffraction,” InVisible Culture seeks to incite a proliferation of pathways into the questions, problems, and possibilities motivating scholars of visual culture today. CFP: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issue-…

Toni Armstrong reviews the Collections Exhibition, Tender Loving Care, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. More on website: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/love-lesso…

We are happy to announce that IVC Dialogues just published the interview with film scholar Tom Gunning—professor emeritus in the departments of Cinema and Media Studies, Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/viewing-pr…

Book Review by Rian Johnson: Jinying Li. Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 344 pages. Read: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/anime-know…

We just extended the Submission Due to March 15th, 2025. CFP: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issue-…

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Issue 39, “The Copy.” invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc Articles by Hank Gerba, Emily Martin, Jordan Schonig, and Ellen Siebel-Achenbach. Dialogues by Paul Duro and Jacob Carter. Artworks by Pranav Patil and Isaac Sullivan.

In our latest Issue 39, Hank Gerba turns to the wave-like interference patterns to propose an “aesthetic of automaticity” that emerges in the movements between digital and analog images and impacts our understanding of technological and human perception.

In Issue 39, Emily Martin contends that the face, once a locus of identity, is now understood as a digital object, open to manipulations and endless replications. Article link: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/post-face-…

Our latest Issue 39: The Copy just released Jordan Schonig's article "Replication as Revelation: Contingency, Detail, and Cinephilia in Nathan Fielder's Re-creations." Check it out: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/replicatio…

We just released Ellen Siebel-Achenbach‘s Object Forgery and Reproduction: Modes of Recreation through Hannah Arendt’s Vita Activa on the latest Issue 39: The Copy. Check it out here: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/object-for…

With The Price to Live, Pranav Patil imitates Nintendo’s 1985 game Super Mario Bros. to critique privatized healthcare and its cost to human life. Check out the latest issue here: invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc

Hypothetical Spaces (2007 – present) by Isaac Sullivan contemplates the death of photography as a process that pervades and shifts within the contemporary. It was made possible in part by a grant from the Zayed University Office of Research. invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc

In honor of Issue 39, InVisible Culture interviewed Paul Duro, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art and Art History and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Check it out here: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/tracing-co…

InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/open-call-…

Check out Emily Broad's latest curatorial reflection on Face Value: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/reflection…

Addressing the centrality of interdisciplinary methodology for visual studies, the conversation with Sean Metzger explored topics such as language acquisition, community-building, ethnographic methods, and the constraints of disciplinary boundaries. invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/reflection…