Launch special Issue Journal of Visual Cultures

On March 24 Ifor Duncan spoke at the launch of the Special Issue of the Journal of Visual Culture entitled Weaving Worlds at the Urban Room, UCL East.

The event featured presentations from authors and a roundtable discussion on key themes of the issue, including Ifor’s collaborative article Politics of the turbid image: against underwater fascist visual rhetoric. The authors discussed questions of evidence, affect and speculation, and how these operate within our current economy of knowledge production through the use of practices such as mapping, modelling, sensing, and storytelling. 

While these practices are not new, they have been transformed through advancements in technology and through the way they are embedded within the digital realm. Across their contributions the authors discuss the aftermaths of infrastructural transformations, sense-making practices across the geologic and subterranean worlds, counter-figuration and turbidity as practices of resistance, and the role of abstraction and imagination on knowledge making practices. 

The article can be downloaded here.