Julien Porquet

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Peer review 
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2026

2025



2025
In the Wake of Brands: De-Enregisterment and Re-Enregisterment. Signs and Society, 2026, 1–20.

Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-16. (With Sitong Wang, and Lydia B. Chilton.)

How to do things with style: A pragmatic history of style as a site for debates about authorship, commodification and technological reproducibility. Journal of Illustration 12, no. 1: 67-86.




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writing

2025

2024


2024

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2021


2017


2017
The End of Photographic Evidence, Again. On Looking

Why creative labour isn’t always seen as “real work” – and what that means for artists and designers. It’s Nice That

The Wisdom of Hot Men Making Shitty Art. On Looking

If You’re Worried About DALL·E Replacing Illustrators, You Don’t Understand The Power of Illustration. Eye On Design

What the Think Pieces About “Corporate Memphis” Tell Us About the State of Illustration. Eye On Design

Religion et nationalisme: les cas de blasphème en Birmanie. L’Asie en 1000 mots.  (Winner of best student essay)

Film, Photography, and the Contemporary Museum. Cultural Anthropology, Visual and New Media Review2018