Errant Journal #8: Against Visibility. Photo: Mars Yamaguchi / Framer Framed Bookshop Selection: Errant Journal #8
On 7 September 2025, Framer Framed was pleased to host the launch for Errant Journal’s 8th issue, Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity).
The eighth issue of Errant Journal questions the ways in which hegemonic culture and discourse tends to prioritize the ideal of openness, access, transparency, and visibility. Delving into topics such as face coverings, ‘coming out’ in queer discourses, the use of opacity in transformative justice, and different strategies of (visual) resistance, Against Visibility can be read as a proposition of refusal of the paradigm of visibility and access that permeates all areas of western thinking. At a moment in which representation and uncovering ‘lost’ histories are trending, Errant asks what is being erased in a world where everything must always be visible.
This issue also features an interview between editor-in-chief Irene de Craen and Michèle Boulogne, the 2025 recipient of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst’s 3Package Deal, nominated by the coalition of Framer Framed, Waag, and Hackers & Designers.
Errant Journal is now available in the Framer Framed shop or online.
Errant Journal #8: Against Visibility. Photo: Mars Yamaguchi / Framer Framed
Contributors
Vivi Alfonsín, Leila Ben Abdallah, Mariam Ben Slama, Michèle Boulogne, Irene de Craen, AmaraChíkà Emele-Ralph, Cosmo M. Esposito, Jamie McGhee, Ludovica Micalizzi, Nadine Monem, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Musa Shadeedi & Federica Stagni.
Get your copy of Errant Journal in the Framer Framed bookshop or order directly online via the webshop.
Credits
Errant Journal is a cultural/political publication loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant´s notion of the Poetics of Relation in which he opposes ideas of centres, linearity, roots and dichotomy. Errant, meaning both ‘deviating from an accepted norm’ and ‘wandering’, represents a way of breaking free from the idea of identity based on origin and the possibility to possess a totality of knowledge. It is never the goal to know everything, to see and understand something in its entirety. Instead, a person who is ‘errant’ rejects the universal and challenges the idea that the world is transparent and explainable.
Framed Framed is founding partner of Errant Journal, a concept of Irene de Craen.
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Agenda
Launch: Errant Journal #8, Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity)
Errant Journal #8 questions the ways in which hegemonic culture prioritises the ideal of visibility
Network
Nadine Monem
Writer
Pieter Paul Pothoven
Artist
Michèle Boulogne
