[caption] the journal of visual cultural studies

Welcome to [caption]: the journal of visual cultural studies — a project that emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, bouncing between its digital and analog incarnations, it stages encounters between scholarship and image-making — where Arbus’s restless gaze, Basquiat's eloquent and dreamy canvas-borne utterances, and Man Ray's endless experimentations meet the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, Berger, Sontag, and Stuart Hall.

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The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing

An exhibition at The Getty gave me the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in my own house and discovering new things about a topic

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LLMs and Ontology

Science fiction author Ted Chiang's case against AI consciousness in The Atlantic runs through how a language model actually works. Feed it

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James Stuart is railing against boring design with techniques inspired by the spirit of Arabic hardcore music

From reconfigured American flags to decimated collages, James Stuart is a graphic designer, filmmaker and musician whose work has the riotou

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Inside the making of Norway’s ‘Viking’ photo for World Cup

Some might assume the image is AI but the photographer, David Yarrow, explains to The Athletic how it came about

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“Music venues are the engine of the creative industries”: lessons from the graphic ephemera of our lost clubs and pubs

The V&A’s newest display memorialises and preserves the visuals of a vanishing live event landscape. But not all is doom and gloom, as c

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A peek into how Pinkpantheress’ new noughties-infused music video was created with a 21-year-old VFX visionary

This emerging Polish voice in the editing community shows how Gen Z is bringing forth an exciting and innovative visual attitude to contempo

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Line Arngaard, Piecing Pages. On working in fragments, Self-Published, [The Netherlands], 2025 [San Serriffe, Amsterdam. rile*books, Bruxelles-Brussel. Printed Matter, New York, NY]

Contributors: Asefeh Tayebani, Hanka van der Voet, Jess Bailey and Sharbreon Plummer, Joke Robaard, Linda van Deursen, Lucy R. Lippard, Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro, Rietlanden Women's Office, Ronja Andersen, Rosita Kær, Susu Lee, Youngeun Sohn

Design: Line Arngaard

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W. E. B. Du Bois, "A Book Note," drafts, typescript and carbon, corrected, n.d. [W. E. B. Du Bois Collection / Series II: Writings / The World and Africa, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

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Franz Erhard Walther: Arbeiten 1959-1963, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, 1980 [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. © Franz Erhard Walther / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026]

Exhibition: December 12, 1980 – January 11, 1981

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Jan J. Schoonhoven, Texts by Johannes Cladders, Hans van der Griten, Klaus Honnef, Walter Kambartel, and Jean Leering, Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach, 1972, Edition of 660 numbered copies [Studio Bruno Tonini, Gussago (BS). © Jan Schoonhoven]

Exhibition: March 1 – April 9, 1972

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Consolidated, Friendly Fa$cism, (Vinyl/LP), NET 033, Nettwerk Europe, 1991 [Covet The Cover]

Artwork (Illustrations and Sleeve Design): William Dickson II

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Abby Haddican Studio, Times New Resistance (a Times New Roman impersonator that autocorrects the autocrats), (free font), 2026 (introduction here, otf here)

«Times New Resistance is a modification of Nimbus Roman No9 L, an open source font designed by URW. The font has been modified to autocorrect specific words, in accordance with the terms of the GNU General Public License. Times New Resistance is made available under the GNU General Public License as well.»

(via nonostantement)

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Guy de Cointet, JRP|Ringier, Genève, 2011 [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. Art: © Estate of Guy de Cointet]

Editors: Clément Dirié, Lionel Bovier Authors: Gérard Wajcman, Larry Bell, Marie de Brugerolle

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Text – Sound – Image. Small Press Festival, Introduction by Guy Schraenen, Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.), Antwerpen, 1976 [Libreria El Astillero, Cantabria]

Contributors: Guy Schraenen, Peter Below, Ulises Carrión, Henri Chopin, Geoffrey Cook, Ricardo Cristobal, Michael Gibbs, Klaus Groh, Richard Kostelanetz, David Mayor, Clemente Padín, G.J. De Rook, Jan Swidzinski, Paul de Vree, and Nicholas Zurbrugg

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Anna Ferrer, PA, (Black LP, Limited Edition Colored LP, CD, Digital album), LC117, La Castanya, 2026

(via In This World, «Battiti», Rai Radio 3, May 12, 2026)

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Alvar Aalto 1898-1976, Suomen arkkitehtuurimuseo – Finlands arkitekturmuseum, Helsinki, 1978 [Benoît Waterkeyn. © Alvar Aalto Foundation]

Editor: Aarno Ruusuvuori Text in English: Göran Schildt, J. M. Richards, Nils Erik Wickberg and C. L. Ragghianti Articles and Extracts from Articles: Alvar Aalto Layout and Selection of Pictures: Juhani Pallasmaa

Cover Art: embossing based on Aalto's Savoy vase from 1937

↗ Alvar Aalto Foundation

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Dieter Roth, TROPHIES. 125 TWO-HANDED SPEEDY DRAWINGS, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, 1979, Edition of 200 deluxe copies [Unoriginal Sins, Eals Farm, Eals, Brampton. Art: © Dieter Roth Estate]