Disastrous Dialogue: Plastic Productions of Agency-Meaning Relationships
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Disastrous Dialogue : Plastic Productions of Agency-Meaning Relationships. / Just, Sine Nørholm; Berg, Kristine Marie.
In: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2016, p. 28-46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Disastrous Dialogue
T2 - Plastic Productions of Agency-Meaning Relationships
AU - Just, Sine Nørholm
AU - Berg, Kristine Marie
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In 2010 the Danish artist Søren Thilo Funder was in Cairo to produce the art film Disastrous Dialogue. As Funder set to work he had a foreboding about how politically charged the piece might be. When he cut the film, however, events had exceeded his most fateful premonitions, reshaping the interpretative context completely. The changes in Egyptian society, thus, altered the possible meaning–agency relations of the finished work. Through a close reading and a conceptually guided criticism of the text–context relationships of Disastrous Dialogue we explore interrelations of meaning and agency through the lens of the concept of plasticity. This leads us to propose a plastic understanding of agency as both formed by and formative of meaningful relationships—and able to creatively destruct and, thereby, transform configurations of meaning.
AB - In 2010 the Danish artist Søren Thilo Funder was in Cairo to produce the art film Disastrous Dialogue. As Funder set to work he had a foreboding about how politically charged the piece might be. When he cut the film, however, events had exceeded his most fateful premonitions, reshaping the interpretative context completely. The changes in Egyptian society, thus, altered the possible meaning–agency relations of the finished work. Through a close reading and a conceptually guided criticism of the text–context relationships of Disastrous Dialogue we explore interrelations of meaning and agency through the lens of the concept of plasticity. This leads us to propose a plastic understanding of agency as both formed by and formative of meaningful relationships—and able to creatively destruct and, thereby, transform configurations of meaning.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - meaning
KW - formation
KW - plasticity
KW - rhetorical agency
U2 - 10.1080/02773945.2015.1106008
DO - 10.1080/02773945.2015.1106008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 46
SP - 28
EP - 46
JO - Rhetoric Society Quarterly
JF - Rhetoric Society Quarterly
SN - 0277-3945
IS - 1
ER -
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