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SDSU Press Presents 
The
Journal of Visual Cultural Studies Issue 001 – “CAPTION THIS”
[caption] emerges from
the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual,
audacious, and gloriously hybrid, the journal
stages encounters
between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze meets
the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, and Stuart Hall.
We publish work that refuses to choose between
seeing and thinking, between the archive and the
avant-garde.
For our inaugural issue,
[caption] invites artists, scholars, critics,
practitioners, and cultural troublemakers to submit
work that interrogates the visual in all its unruly
forms: cinema, photography, fashion, design,
streaming culture, digital media, and the mutating
semiotics of contemporary screens. Bring us the work
that won’t sit still. Bring us the visual theory that
insists on being seen. We
encourage collaboration between great writers and
great artists to submit:
• Scholarly
essays that converse with, challenge, or rewire
traditions of visual and cultural theory • Short-form
visual essays, photo sequences, and experimental
image-driven criticism • Reflections
on archival practices, media histories, and the
politics of looking • Creative-critical
hybrids, fragments, manifestos, and works that defy
categorization • Interviews
or dialogues with artists, thinkers, and makers • Short
speculative writings on media futures, digital
hauntings, and the aesthetics of surveillance
[caption] is
part gallery, part think tank, part cultural séance. We
publish work that understands every image as an
argument and every theory as a pose. We seek
submissions that look back, look with, and look
otherwise—pieces alive with curiosity, unruliness,
and rigor. Submission
Guidelines:
•
Short scholarly essays captioning
visual cultural art/work/artist/study: 500-3,000 words •
Visual or hybrid works:
up to 15 images with accompanying text (300–1,000
words) •
Interviews: up to 4,000 words
Discover more at sdsupress.sdsu.edu & sdsupress.sdsu.edu/caption Refer Questions and send submissions to: jking3@sdsu.edu |
Join us
in making [caption] a space where vision
becomes discourse—and discourse dares to look
back.