Octopus :: a visual studies journal

 http://www.octopusjournal.org/

Descubrimos esta publicación dedicada a la visualidad, cultura, historia y teoría. Está editada por los estudiantes del programa de estudios visuales de la Universidad de California, Irvine. El primer número, publicado hace unos meses, fue dedicado a la “Sinestesia” y el segundo, previsto para abril/mayo, lleva por título “The Dark”.

The title is inspired by the William S. Burroughs essay of the same name, in which he describes “a new creature, a mutant” whose enormous watching eyes are “anchored in [the] viscera with no intervening bones” and thus are “[e]yes that hear and feel and smell.” Octopus proposes that vision is not rooted in the eye itself, but rather extends to corporeality, affect, and sensation. It seeks to engage questions of the politics of vision, the historicity of visual practices, and the cultures and theories of vision and visuality. Propelled by an investment in the work of emerging artists and scholars, the journal hopes to put into practice processes of interdisciplinarity and intellectual hybridity, as well as to provide a space for the production of visionary scholarship.