The Journal of Visual Culture issue 8:2, The Questionnaire on Obama Issue, is now out. (To go directly to individual articles, please use the links in the right hand column, under the heading Current Issue.) Working in universities and cultural institutions in the UK, the US, and elsewhere, academics, educators, artists, critics, and curators have contributed to the Questionnaire. The contents appear below:

Marquard Smith and JVC Editorial Group
Questionnaire on Barack Obama

W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)
Obama as Icon

Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Obama’s Whiteness

Dora Apel (Wayne State)
Just Joking? Chimps, Obama and Racial Stereotype

Raimi Gbadamosi (The Slade School of Art)
I Believe In Miracles

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (University of California, Irvine)
Recognizing Obama: Image and Beyond?

Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside)
My Green Crush

Jacqueline Bobo (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Impact of Grassroots Activism

Julian Myers, Dominic Willsdon, and Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough (California College of the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and San Francisco)
What Happened in Vegas

Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago)
Dear journal of visual culture

Marita Sturken (New York University)
The New Aesthetics of Patriotism

Lisa Cartwright and Stephen Mandiberg (University of California, San Diego)
Obama and Shepard Fairey: The Copy and Political Iconography in the Age of the Demake

John Armitage and Joy Garnett (University of Northumbria)
Radicalizing Refamiliarization

Victor Margolin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Obama Sightings

Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London)
You Killed Barack Obama, 2008

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
The Modern Prince . . . ‘to come’?

Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The Afrogeek-in-Chief: Obama and our New Media Ecology

Julian Stallabrass (The Courtauld Institute)
Obama on Flickr

Ellis Cashmore (Staffordshire University)
Perpetual Evocations

John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California)
Visualizing Barack Obama

Robert Harvey (SUNY at Stonybrook)
Other Obamas

Curtis Marez (University of Southern California)
Obama’s BlackBerry, or This Is Not a Technology of Destruction

Cynthia A . Young (Boston College)
From ‘Keep on Pushing’ to ‘Only in America’: Racial Symbolism and the Obama Campaign

Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University)
An End to the American Civil War?