Volume 24
jcb, 2025, volume 24, issue 1-2
CURATORIAL: Worlds Reimagined | Astrid Van den Bossche
CONVERSATION: On the Wonders of Speculative Writing | Sarah Perry, Feng Zhu and Laura Gibson
SHORT STORY: A Day Without the Guide | Anonymous
SHORT STORY: Advent | Alexander Rose
ESSAY: Worlds of Work: Speculative Fiction and Workerism | Jamie Woodcock
DEEP DIVE: The Proliferation of Living Currencies | Paul Haynes
PROSE POEM: Threads of Resilience and Hope in a Pandemic | Edward Timke, Minita Sanghvi, Laurel Steinfield and Kevin D. Thomas
PHOTOGRAPHY: Vanishing Worlds | Rúben Neves
POEM: Plantasia, a Phytography of a Sunflower | Boris Collet and Adèle Gruen
VIEWPOINT: Around the World in 80 Books | Jonatan Södergren
MEMOIR: No Wardrobe Necessary | Stephen Brown
ESSAY: A VR Library for Anthropology | Thomas Cousins
EXHIBIT: The Quiet Enchanting | Superflux (Anab Jain and Jon Ardern)
READING LIST: …And Then? | Astrid Van den Bossche
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jcb, 2025, volume 24, issue 3
CURATORIAL: JCB at Three: Accounting for Taste
CREDO: JCB Sets You Free
COMMENT: Don’t Weep for Me Academia | Chris Hackley
COMMENT: Para-Bulls on Literary Star Power and Popularity in Customer Research | Morris B. Holbrook
COMMENT: Baby, You Can Read My Book (and Alan, I Love You): Reflections on Fame in the Academy | Kent Drummond
COMMENT: One Hundred Years of Precarity | Arash Naghdi
RESPONSE: Supporting Para-academia | Alan Bradshaw
STORY: Journey: A Short Story by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay | Himadri Roy Chaudhuri and Arindam Das
POEM: This is Fan Food, not Fast Food | Ian FitzGerald
POEM: What’s in your Wallet? | Ian FitzGerald
POEM: Intel Inside | Ian FitzGerald
STORY: The Biography of a Spoon | Cristina Galalae and Tana Cristina Licsandru
MEMOIR: Marketing Nostalgia | Guy Warner
VIDEO-ESSAY: Logarithm: A Cinematic Exploration of Time | William Walczak and Eric Ping Hung Li
POEMS: Dark Echoes | Vikram Kapoor
ESSAY: Wilde About Freddy | Declan McGinty and Victor McClure
ENVOI: After Words | Stephen Brown
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jcb, 2025, volume 24, issue 4
CURATORIAL: Christmas Greeting
POEMS: In Memoriam | John F. Sherry, Jr.
POEM: Eulogy | Jennifer Takhar
POEM: Ô | Roel Wijland
TRIBUTE: Roel, Roel, Burning Bright. Hilary, Hilary, Queen of Delight | Stephen Brown
ARTICLE: Pat the Bunny! – Or a Pheno-Literary Excavation | Astrid Van den Bossche
MEMOIR: Consumer Remembrances | Clinton Lanier
ARTICLE: Every Consumer Researcher Dies Alone | Jonatan Södergren, Mattias Hjelm and Oscar Ahlberg
STORY: Twelfth Night: The Haunting at The King’s Inn | Christina Goulding
STORY: The Kelvinside Ghost | Lorna Stevens
STORY: When the Veil Thins: Spectres at the Limits of Being and Knowing | Mark Tadajewski
STORY: Expedition X-mas: A Campfire Tale of Consume-lore-behaviour | Richard Mitchell
ARTICLE: Consuming the Wound | Neil Robinson, Nick Catahan and Crispin Dale
COMMENT: Merry Clickmas and Season’s Glitchings | Carsten Lund Pedersen
COMMENT: Assisted Living – Skelp Reviews | Joel Hinman
POEMS: Four Pieces From Nordic Mythology | Jens Martin Svendsen
POEM: Ode to the Field | Amélie Bellion