About
world picture is an online, open-access journal that publishes a heterodox selection of invited essays and artworks on a roughly biannual basis. Each issue revolves around a single term that resonates across a range of aesthetic, political, and cultural contexts. Contributors are invited to respond in whatever way they find most illuminating or necessary at the time, and they can address the term directly or obliquely. The format of pieces that we publish is extremely open-ended by design; we accommodate short pieces as well as long ones, from scholars both emerging and established. We are interested in publishing experimental pieces of writing, philosophy, poetry, as well as original works of visual media and interviews. Much of the work that we publish reflects a preoccupation with the relations among moving image media, theory, and continental philosophy from which the journal began, but we remain open to a variety of subjects, methods, and approaches.
Since founding the journal together in 2008, Brian Price, John David Rhodes, and Meghan Sutherland, in consultation with the Advisory Board they assembled at the outset, have formed the unnamed “we” to which this brief account of the life of world picture implicitly refers. Then, and still, the endeavor of world picture can be understood as a sustained effort to enact and encourage a more porous, more joyous, more collective relation between the terms “intellectual” and “life.” With the launch of our Summer 2023 issue “spell,” we also launch a second life of world picture, with a new and renovated website. All of the journal’s past and future issues will be both accessible and searchable on a much more user-friendly interface, with mobile and desktop versions.
We are delighted to announce the expansion of our Editorial Collective to include Veronica Fitzpatrick (Brown University), Jules O’Dwyer (University of Cambridge), and Elizabeth Wijaya (University of Toronto), and a new Advisory Board drawn from the large community of interlocutors and contributors who have inspired and sustained what we do over the years.
Editorial Committee
Editors
Brian Price
University of Toronto
John David Rhodes
University of Cambridge
Meghan Sutherland
University of Toronto
Jules O'Dwyer
University of Cambridge
Veronica Fitzpatrick
Brown University
Elizabeth Wijaya
University of Toronto
Assistant Editors
Mynt Marsellus
University of Toronto
Jillian Vasko
University of Toronto
Advisory Board
Sara Ahmed
Independent Scholar
Sara Jane Bailes
University of Sussex
Eugenie Brinkema
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin Crowley
University of Cambridge
Kay Dickinson
University of Glasgow
Scott Durham
Northwestern University
Jane Elliot
King’s College, London)
Seb Franklin
King's College London
Rosalind Galt
King’s College, London)
Bishnupriya Ghosh
University of California, Santa Barbara
Elena Gorfinkel
King’s College, London
Cassandra X. Guan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott Krzych
Colorado College
Michael Lawrence
University of Sussex
Sam Lipsyte
Columbia University
Karen Pinkus
Cornell University
Chairat Polmuk
Chulalongkorn University
Laura Mulvey
Birkbeck College, University of London
Pooja Rangan
Amherst College
Alessandra Raengo
Georgia State University
Angelo Restivo
Georgia State University
Stephen G. Rhodes
Jessica Ruffin
University of Michigan
Bhaskar Sarkar
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeffrey Sconce
Northwestern University
Ma Shaoling
Cornell University
Keston Sutherland
University of Sussex
Amy Villarejo
University of California, Los Angeles
Damon Young
University of California, Berkeley
FAQs
Although every piece we publish goes through a process of internal review by the Editorial Collective in consultation with the Advisory Board, we also offer a formal process of external peer-review to contributors who request it upon invitation, and we are happy to confirm the status of these pieces as needed for processes of hiring, tenure, and promotion.
We do not accept blind submissions, but people who are seriously interested in writing for the journal, contributing a work of art, or proposing a guest-edited special issue are also welcome to contact us by email.
We do not believe that publishing a work entitles us to claim it as our rightful possession. Accordingly, the rights to all of the work that appears in journal revert to the authors and artists who produced them—though we do ask contributors who wish to republish their work elsewhere to acknowledge and cite its initial publication in world picture.