[Commlist] CfP: The Image in the Plural: Discourse Theory and Visual Culture Studies

“The Image in the Plural: Discourse Theory and Visual Culture Studies” Panel
at the
International Conference on Ideology and Discourse Analysis 2019
“Logics, Critical Explanation and the Future of Critical Political 
Theory: Applying Discourse Analysis in Multiple Contexts”

University of Essex, May 31 - June 1, 2019

A particular logic of showing and seducing is inherent in images: they 
showcase and bring to mind, they possess the force to produce evidence 
and they are inclusive and integrate ambivalences and connections. At 
the same time, they can establish new relations and thus have a 
particular reality-transforming effect. Images thus have a genuinely 
affirmative character, but they can also to tip prevailing allocations 
and meanings into crisis. Finally, they can act as mirrors in which 
subjects can gaze at themselves. This force that images contain can be 
measured by reconstructing the acts of perception and appropriation 
practices as well as the conflicts they trigger.

Discourse theory has mainly developed by referring to written sources 
and by integrations of linguistics and semiotics. Like political theory 
in general, it was long cut off from the analysis of visual media. 
However, visual production and appropriation has long since become a 
constitutive agent in political subjectivation processes. Contemporary 
practices of showing and visual seduction testify to the increasing 
presence of visual media in political positioning and discourse building.

In this panel we would like to discuss approaches to integrating visual 
culture studies into discourse theory. We would like to discuss the 
following questions: How do visuals become part of political discourse? 
How can visual sources and the practices of appropriation and rejection 
that they are part of be analysed? How can inputs from visual culture 
studies be integrated into political discourse analysis? And what are 
the ways in which visuals comply with or challenge written sources?

The panel asks for empirical examples from various historical and 
geographical contexts, as well as innovative methodological insights. 
Theoretical approaches concerning the integration of discourse theory 
and visual culture studies are also welcome.

Panel organizers:
Anna Schober, AAU Klagenfurt, Austria and
M. Ragıp Zık, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Please send your abstracts of maximum 400 words until March 25, 2019 to 
(ragip.zik /at/ fu-berlin.de) <mailto:(ragip.zik /at/ fu-berlin.de)> with the subject 
line starting “Logics Conference”. You will hear from us by April 1, 2019.

Link to conference website: https://cida-essex.co.uk/
Please note that the general call for papers and panel proposals has 
expired. This call is for one panel only.
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