Invisibility Studies

Contents: Henriette Steiner/Kristin Veel: Negotiating (In)Visibilities in Contemporary Culture: A Short Introduction - Charles Lock: Glass Glimpsed: In, On, Through and Beyond - Slavko Kacunko: Mirroring the Invisible - Mechtild Widrich: 'I'll Be Your Mirror': Transparency, Voyeurism and Glass Architecture - Lorens Holm: Transparency: Effable and Ineffable - Bernd Nicolai: Mendelsohn and Libeskind: A Hidden History - Jewish Identity, the Void, Architectural Metaphors and Traces through Twentieth-Century Berlin - Henrik Reeh: Urban Bottles and Green Glass: Display and Transparencies in Post-Industrial Tuborg - Mark Vacher: Spaces of Difference, Different Spaces: A Study of Urban Transformations in an Old Paint Factory - Dora Osborne: Negotiating (In)Visibilities in German Memory Culture - Jane Rendell: Surface Encounters: On Being Centred, Decentred and Recentred by the Works of Do-Ho Suh - Claus Bech-Danielsen: The Secret Suburb: Second Lives in Second Homes - Annie Ring: Cool Critique Versus Hot Spectatorship: Jelinek/Haneke's Voyeur around Vienna, a Return - Devika Sharma: Visions of Punishment: On Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib Drawings - Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson: To See the World as It Appears: Vision, the Gaze and the Camera as Technological Eye - David Murakami Wood: Vanishing Surveillance: Ghost-Hunting in the Ubiquitous Surveillance Society - Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: The Invisibilities of Internet Censorship - Henriette Steiner/Kristin Veel: Visible in Theory: Perceived Visibility as Symbolic Form - A Photo-Expedition into a Contemporary Urban Environment.

Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of The Emergence of a Modern City: Golden Age Copenhagen 1800-1850 (2014) and co-editor of Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites (2009) and Rumlig Kultur/Spatial Culture (2012).
Kristin Veel is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction (2009) and co-editor of the collected volume The Cultural Life of Crises and Catastrophes (2012).