August 2024
It’s been a while since we last shared with you updates on our publications through our Newsletter. Reflecting on the interim period, it’s as shocking, disheartening as it is astonishing to hold in thought and feeling the enormous tidal shifts that occurred and are still occurring since last we wrote. As we watch the unapologetic eradication of a people in Palestine, we are also compelled to pay homage to a new generation of outspoken witnesses—that cultural-political phenomenon of engaged youth who take up the task of educating themselves and others on the historical context and their activism in factual information sharing – and who will not aid and abet. Our relative freedom allows us not only to mention ‘Palestine’ and address the genocide of the Palestinian people but extends to publishing content on the broad implications of settler colonialism, wars, and capitalist extractions unfolding globally in the Americas, Sudan, Russia-Ukraine, and elsewhere. For this we are immensely grateful to our contributors, readers, respective institutions, and our publisher, Sage.
Closer to home, we are hugely saddened to have lost our dear friend, colleague, collaborator, and accomplice Øyvind Vågnes, a member of the JVC Collective since 2017. Øyvind was Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen, a member of Nomadikon: The Bergen Center of Visual Culture, co-editor of Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, a music journalist, and a novelist. Among his English-language non-fiction works are Zaprudered: the Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture (University of Texas Press, 2011) and a number of Norwegian-language novels including Ekko for which he received the Nynorsk Literature Prize in 2005, and most recently Ei veld utan hestar (2022). May he rest in power and peace.
Please find below a summary of the multifarious content spanning 3 issues (April 2025, August/December 2024, and April 2024) which, alongside imagining Palestinian liberation, engage with the visual histories and estranged ecologies of Istanbul, a pluralistic Europe, the Lennon Walls of Hong Kong’s protests, Beverly Buchanan’s artistic interventions into the architectural afterlives of slavery, Rosa Luxenburg’s political ecology, the Silicon Heartland of Ohio, and the potential of art in a planetary age.
Our JVC Magazine, too, is on a roll. Dedicated to quick publishing on pressing matters in urgent times, its excellent contributions challenge the notions of solidarity, span ecological ruins of Mexico, the cultural reclamation and political commentary of Jean Michel Basquiat’s work, think through passports as both gateways and constraint, form transregional conversations, consider collective responsibility and the colonial legacies of our relationship to nature.
We are proud to present in print and also online the following three issues:
Open issue with contributions including:
- Philippa R Adams, Maria Sommers, Alberto Lusoli, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s ‘The revenge of ‘tribal’ toxic masculinity: hate raids on Twitch’
- Roundtable on Decolonial Jewish Practice in Art and Visual Culture ‘after Gaza’: Jill Casid, Gil Hochberg, Alexandra Juhasz, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Laura Raicovich, and Amanda Shubert
- Karen Kurczynski’s ‘Steve Locke’s ‘#Killers’: facing the inhumanity of whiteness’
- Kasia Bokarska’s ‘Monument in the V Field: The Awkward Object, or a 1943 Memorial to the Women Murdered at Majdanek’
- Mieke Bal’s ‘A War on Words and a Feast of Books’
Book reviews:
Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis and Šarūnas Paunksnis (eds), Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India reviewed by Mehul Agarwal;
Nicholas Mirzoeff, White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness reviewed by Nicole Cartier Barrera.
Volume 23 Issue 2, August/December April 2024
Double issue with contributions including:
- Agata Lisiak’s Notes on plant companionship: from Rosa Luxemburg’s herbarium to Jumana Manna’s Foragers
- Megan Wiessner, Sam Kellogg, Nicole Starosielski’s ‘The visual culture of ‘Silicon Heartland’: architecting agricultural past as infrastructural future’
- Mieke Bal’s ‘Two Inter-s: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality’
- Kamini Vellodi’s ’Interstitial Thinking’
- Samira Makki’s ‘Diaries of an impasse: the video works of Basma Alsharif’
- Berin Golonu’s ‘At the crossroads: photography, ecology and heritage in Istanbul’
- Julian Stallabrass in conversation with Christian Lutz on ‘The photographic depiction of populism’
- Ella Klik’s ‘Moonshots: high-resolution aesthetics and the post-digital past’
Volume 23 Issue 1, April 2024
Open issue with contributions including:
- Dalia AlKury’s ‘“Imagining Palestinian Liberation”’: reflections on the use of film props to dismantle settler colonialism’
- Sarah Richter‘s ‘ “splinter to the heart of the world”: Beverly Buchanan’s shack works’
- Mieke Bal’s ‘Long live the hyphen and the exclamation mark! On the trait-d’union as inter-ship’
- Mai Corlin’s ‘Archives for the future: the 2019 Lennon Walls of Hong Kong’
- Jenny Stümer’s ‘A time of broken futures: biopolitical temporalities, postmemory and apocalyptic affect in Larissa Sansour’s In Vitro’
We are delighted to share that Professor Nishat Awan (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, UK), Dr Sultan Doughan (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Dr Andrew Gayed (OCAD, University, Toronto, Canada), and Dr Yaiza Hernández Velázquez (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) have joined the JVC Editorial Collective. We welcome them wholeheartedly! 😊
We encourage you to keep a close eye on our website, which includes many of our open Issues as well as our open-access Magazine.
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With all our best wishes to you and all yours,
The JVC Editorial Collective
