Roots-Routes. Research on Visual Culture

Independent Four-monthly Magazine of Visual Culture, "roots§routes" stems from the need to create a space for reflection on the role that contemporary aesthetics play, or could play, in relation to anthropological themes and contexts, and in relation to a global scenario which discusses and problematizes the concept of colonial and postcolonial. The magazine is co-directed by Viviana Gravano, Giulia Grechi and Anna Chiara Cimoli; editor and communication Paola Bommarito. roots§routes investigates the aesthetical and anthropological practices, in order to create and represent a discourse on identity and difference, exploring its potential for criticism and epistemological breakthrough. Every issue of roots§routes has a theme through which some contributions are requested to several researchers, theoreticians and artists. Such contributions may have different forms, videos, images, audio, interviews and texts. The magazine aims to carry out a contextual and positioned rereading of colonialism and post colonialism as a process of global and transnational relevance that concerned, and still concern today, both colonizing countries and the colonized (though naturally in different ways), and also those that seemingly have never experienced colonialism directly. Willing to present itself as an international platform, roots§routes has chosen to keep all contributions in their original language, without any sort of translation.