[Commlist] Call for Papers: After Images: Reinventing Visual Culture Studies

 *Call for Papers: After Images: Reinventing Visual Culture Studies *


You are welcome to submit papers to *Arts & Cultural Studies Review* 
thematical block: *After Images: Reinventing Visual Culture Studies *

*paper due date: 5 June 2025 / *no payment from the authors (APC) will 
be required

To submit, please go to journal  CFP
*https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/news/call-for-papers-after-images-reinventing-visual-culture-studies*
and selet submission gate
*https://ojs.ejournals.eu/Przeglad-Kulturoznawczy/*

An alliance of artificial intelligence and networked media is 
reinventing visual culture. The debate about this reconfiguration is 
already in full swing. It heralds the emergence of new forms of images 
(Paglen 2014, Rothöhler 2021; Parikka 2023 Mackenzie Munster 2019; 
Broeckmann 2020), collects the evidence of algorithmic operation 
(Wasielewski 2023 Offert, Bell 2020), ponders the questions of 
artificial creativity (Zylinska 2020; Broeckmann 2019). The fascinating 
discussion points to a renewal of visual studies (WHY PICTURES? 2019-, 
Azar, Cox, Impett, 2021). But is visual culture relevant today in the 
same sense it was in the time of W.J.T. Mitchell? Is it still a 
dangerous supplement to politics and language? The humanities have their 
needs. The intrusion of Gaia has mobilised a quest for earthbound 
aesthetics (Stengers 2017; Latour, Weibel 2020). Posthuman feminist 
critique has shifted the momentum towards performative expressions, 
matter and the worlds of fantasy literature (Haraway 2016, Bennett 2020, 
Tsing 2017). With the proposed theme issue, we welcome debate on the 
reinvention of visual culture studies.

We invite you to shift the focus from algorithmic visuality to visual 
cultures that /resonate with/ the massification of AI systems. In this 
sense, we encourage an exchange that reclaims the original scope of 
media studies, which included reflection on human interventions in land, 
water and atmosphere (Starosielski 2019). We call for a reappraisal of 
human geographies on the concept of the subliminal (Thrift 2004) and the 
aesthetics of atmospheres (Böhme, Thibaud 2016), in order to asses the 
effects the notorious campaign of claudalist empires that absolutize the 
value of internal model-oriented AI technologies. Could it be that the 
humanities of late modernity, captivated by a flight through printed 
pages and flickering screens, have forgotten how powerful arguments they 
have at their disposal? Our aim is to collect arguments that counter 
hegemonic narratives of AI, and to recall not only the necessity but 
also the inevitability of embodied and situated visual cultures.

We would like this issue to take the form of a debate. We are interested 
in reasoned opinions and methodological proposals that argue for or 
against the relevance of taking new routes in visual studies.

The following is a brief description of the issues that we would like to 
discuss:

   * Why archives? Contributions that gather arguments for a revival in
     studies of the artistic canon, archives and museums.
   * Why games? Contributions presenting arguments for or against the
     expansion of games and VR/AR studies in academic curricula.
   * Why elemental media? Contributions that argue for or critique the
     move of air/water or earth studies to the centre of visual media
     studies.
   * A kin to the environment? Works exploring the extent to which visual
     studies can become relevant to ecocritical debates.
   * New vocabularies? Contributions discussing both emerging and
     diminishing vocabularies of the visual; papers proposing a
     constellation of concepts and microtheories that reveal the residue
     of visual phaenomena today.
   * A dangerous supplement? Contributions discussing the disruptive
     potential of visual cultures, exploring synergies or even frictions
     between visual activities and the work of algorithms and LLMs.

**Keywords:* visual culture studies, AI, algorithmic society, debates in 
humanities*

*Submit full papers at: *https://ojs.ejournals.eu/Przeglad- 
Kulturoznawczy/about/submissions**


  paper due date: 5 June 2025 / no payment from the authors (APC) will 
be required / instruction for Authors *https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ 
przeglad-kulturoznawczy/page/instructions-for-authors*


* /Arts & Cultural Studies Review  is a peer-reviewed journal editedb y 
Jagiellonian University, Krakow ISSN 1895-975X   e-ISSN 2084-3860 MNiSW 
points: 70/*

*https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/news/call-for- 
papers-after-images-reinventing-visual-culture-studies*


Any questions get in touch with:

editorial office: przeglad.kulturoznawczy/at/uj.edu.pl
the thematic block editor Anna Olszewska  aolsz/at/ agh.edu.pl


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