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Issue 32: Rest and the Rest: The Aesthetics of Idleness (Spring 2021)

Introduction / Issue 32
Rest and the Rest: The Aesthetics of Idleness

by IVC Editorial Board

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. Also in this issue: “The Somnophile’s Guide to Cinema: An Interview with Jean Ma.” “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do,” the old saying goes, or in another version of the phrase, “the devil finds work...

April 25, 2021
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Articles, Current Issue, Featured, Issue 32

Cultivating (In)attention, Listening to Noise

by Emily Bock Featured image: Chantal Regnault, Legendary Voguer Willi Ninja wearing a Thierry Mugler body piece, 1989. Photo courtesy of the photographer. For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has...

April 25, 2021
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The House That Ghosts Built (And Mediums Performed)

By Paula Vilaplana de Miguel Featured image: Seances, a popular entertainment in the late 19th century, under a red light. *The following work acknowledges that the phenomenon of haunting...

April 25, 2021
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The Somnophile’s Guide to Cinema: An Interview with Jean Ma

By Amanda (Xiao) Ju, Jean Ma, Patrick Sullivan, and Madeline Ullrich Featured Image: Still from Cemetery of Splendour (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015). Jean Ma was the keynote speaker for...

April 25, 2021
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Artworks

Dolce far niente, Ärjä

Published by IVC Author

by Nina Luostarinen Ärjä island is known for its long sand beaches, high shoreline cliffs and deep pine forests. The island is a geomorphically important ridge island on the...

April 25, 2021
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Apis Mellifera: Towards an Ecoaesthetics of Stillness

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By Michał Krawczyk Humanity became the major geo-shifting force on the planet. The current epoch of the Anthropocene sadly affirms our disrupting engagement with the more-than-human world.1 The rates...

April 25, 2021
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reviews

The book cover for James J. Hodge's Sensations of History
June 10, 2021

Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art

Reviewed by Stefan Higgins, University of Victoria James J. Hodge. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art. Minneapolis:...

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May 27, 2021

Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination

Reviewed by Luke Jarzyna, University of Rochester Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal, eds. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination....

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May 3, 2021

What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet...

Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver Madina Tlostanova. What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial...

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November 28, 2020

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

Reviewed by Dylan Lackey, Global Center for Advanced Studies Jack Halberstam. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke...

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InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

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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...

April 13, 2021
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Dialogues

April 26, 2021

Murmurations: A Conversation Between Sarah Friedland and...

April 25, 2021

Choreography of the Body’s Collapse: The Anti-Capitalist...

April 25, 2021

The Somnophile’s Guide to Cinema: An Interview with Jean...

April 9, 2021

Moving In: A Review of ‘Home Body’ at Sapar...

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