Duncan, I. & Levy, S., ‘Politics of the turbid image: against underwater fascist visual rhetoric’, Journal of Visual Culture, 2025. Abstract This article examines submerged environments and modes of visual mediation that are used to depict them. Attending to the turbid image as an optical register of complex material and political conditions, the authors challenge the normalization…

Salomé Lopes Coelho, ‘Turning to stone: diffracted geostoriesand inhuman intimacy in Latin American cinema’, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (15 Aug 2025). This essay examines Manuela de Laborde’s film As Without So Within (2016) as a Cinematic Geostory that enacts Inhuman Intimacy within the broader context of the “geological turn” in Latin American cinema. Conceptualising inhuman intimacy as…

Susanne C. Knittel, ‘Ecologies of violence: Cultural memory (studies) and the genocide-ecocide nexus’, Memory Studies (2023), Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1563-1578. Ecocide and large-scale ecological degradation raise critical questions regarding guilt, justice, and responsibility. The complexity and scale of ecological violence present a singular challenge for memory studies, especially when it comes to understanding…