Sunil Manghani is Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique and Deputy Head of School, Director of Research and Enterprise at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is editor of Journal of Visual Art Practice and managing editor of Theory, Culture & Society. He is an Associate of Tate Exchange; and member of the Academic Advisory Board of University of Southampton’s Web Science Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute’s AI and Arts group. He is also a co-opted trustee for the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design. He teaches and writes on various aspects of critical theory, visual arts and image studies.

Current Projects: Preparation of the Artwork | Painting/Knowledge | Data Image Lab | structualism.ai
Research Interests: Visual Art & Culture | Image Studies | Critical Theory | Experiments with Writing

Visual Art & Culture

See also: Journal of Visual Art Practice

Image Studies

  • Manghani, S. (2020) ‘Zero Degree Image: From the Empirical Image to Image as Capacity’, in E. Alloa and C. Cappelletto (eds.) Dynamis of Images: Moving Images In a Global World. Contact Zones series, De Gruyter, pp.263-285.
  • ‘Image Theory’ in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly. Oxford University Press, pp. 422-426. 
  • Image Studies: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2013. (See also: Companion Website)
  • Images: Critical & Primary Sources, Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • ‘Images: An Imaginary Problem?’ in J. Elkins & M. Naef (ed.) What is an Image? Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011, pp. 226-228.
  • Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Intellect Books, 2008.
  • Images: A Reader, Sage, 2006.

Critical Theory

  • ‘Review Essay: Changing the Object’, review of Diana Knight, ed., Interdisciplinary Barthes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), Barthes Studies, Vol. 8.
  • ‘Neutral Life / Late Barthes’ (Special Issue), Theory, Culture & Society, 2020, Vol.37, No. 4.
  • ‘Idiorrhythmy: An (Unsustainable) Aesthetics of Ethics, in P.Crespi & S.Manghani (eds.), Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp.150-172.
  • Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices, Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
  • ‘Barthes/Bataille: The Writing of Neutral Economy’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2018, Vol.35, No.4, pp.193-215.
  • ‘The art of Paolo Cirio: exposing new myths of big data structures’, Theory, Culture & Society. 34, 7-8, 2017, pp.197-214.
  • ‘Zones of Indeterminacy: An Interview with Peng Yu’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2015, Vol. 32, No. 7–8, pp.300–309.
  • ‘Making Metapictures Political: Public Screenings of the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ in Northern Lights, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2009, pp.113-131. 
  • ‘Public (re)visions: critical pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall’ in Film International, 2006, Vol.4, no.6, pp.16-27.

See also: Theory, Culture & Society

Experiments with Writing