Search Results for signify

... that the movement to abolish the transcendental signified in post-structural philosophy is homologous to the abolition of objective value in economics. It will be claimed that the impulse to abolish the Thing shared by economic theorists and post-structuralists follows from a shared, though necessarily differently...

... serves as the equivalent for all asset values. This general equivalent is conceptualized as a master signifier. Based on Laclau’s political theory and theories of International Political Economy, the article argues that it is the master signifier, which not only defines the assets’ value relations...

... represents a sign of political resistance. Acts of social criminality, for example, take on political significance when undermining the regime’s hegemonic narrative. Instead of reading acts of banditry as isolated incidents of criminal behavior, political movements may interpret the acts as signifying larger...

... by popular representations of Hurricane Katrina have been effectively subverted by activist movements in New Orleans which mobilize alternative, experiential and spatial narratives; signifying a grassroots politicization to counter the naturalized racial tropes of neoconservative discourse and intervene...

... of a legal discourse of potential violence. Using Judith Butler and Robert Gooding-Williams’ frame of a “racial field of vision,” this paper juxtaposes the colorblind legal narrative of potential violence with cultural narratives of race that mark Black masculinity with the signifiers of threat...

... mission was deployed to resolve Haiti’s perennial class conflict in the interests of its small elite, Michel Martelly’s populist authoritarianism signifies a homegrown attempt to break through the class stalemate through a reconstructed security state, weak social policies, new mechanisms of co-optation...

... have used individual theoretical concepts from discourse theory in their work, such as the conception of discourse,6 nodal points,? the empty signifier,8 the notion of decision,9 the relationship between particularism and universalism,'o or the logics of difference and equivalence." However...

... these differences. This is done through a discourse - a relational set of signifiers that define a particular identity but that is open for a re-articulation. Construction of discourse is an act of proclaiming power because it selects and invests meaning to an otherwise contingent set of social facts. In this way...

... signifiers.33 While homogeneity is claimed by right-wing populists, there is no denying the fact that any society is necessarily diverse and historically contingent. It is represented rather by lack than by unity and coherence. In times of what is widely called "globalization," allegedly stable cultural...

... to be ideologically variable, such as the discourse of Hugo Chavez for instance, the enemy posed within the universal discursive structure does not necessarily have to signify a leftist threat. Yet within these specific cases of McCarthyite and Tea Party discourse, the enemy is represented as 'leftist...

..., any signifier is more or less "floating" and can be articulated in new ways, but no signifier is completely free-floating.41 37Lasse Thomassen, British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), pp. 33-36. 38Jacques Derrida, Limited Inc...

... to modernity is a form of industrial production.1 For Baudrillard, the modern era is characterized by an increasing independence of the production of meaning from that which is signified or represented by those things produced. During the early modern period produced signs were "emancipated" from fixed...

...) articulating a number of demands as going hand in hand (equivalence), (2) clearly identifying an obstacle standing in the way of their realization (a radical, antagonistic Other), and (3) the provision of a symbol with which different subjects can associate their demands (an empty signifier). Combining PDT...

... populism's research agenda?O In a similar line of argumentation, Chantal Mouffe21 argues that left-wing populism nowadays advances pluralistic democratic politics against neo-liberal oligarchies, by inclusively bringing together under the people's signifier heterogeneous public demands of actors or groups...

... what she represents for man, not in terms of what she actually signifies. Her discourse (her meanings, as she might produce them) is suppressed in favor of a discourse structured by patriarchy in which her real signification has been replaced by connotations that serve patriarchy's needs (Kaplan 1983...

... children. They thus provide a corrective to Lee Edelman’s arguably monolithic characterization of the child as a heteronormative master signifier that secures the ultimate meaning of life. In the film, the stepbrothers are out-of-control adult children. They disrupt meaning and upend major institutions...

... the behavior of these groups to the social totality of which they are a part.' '4 The signs of these motives and attitudes, and the signifiers of their emission and reception in the contemporary society of the spectacle, are written all over the image clusters, composing the daily output of the print...

..., but of integrity.' Coco Fusco, "Fantasies of Oppositionality," 1988 Prior to and after Black Panther's release in 2018, numerous commentators and scholars would describe the film as "not just" or "more than" a movie, a claim that signifies the writers' belief that the film is more substantive in both content...

... Louis Gates, Jr. uses the term, "signifying;' a rhetorical mode of reversing the connotative meaning of a phrase or trope by decontextualizing and implementing it ironically in a new and unfamiliar setting.37 Though Gates uses the term to refer specifically to an African-American tradition, Barry...

.... Successful ideologies establish a relation between what is "inside" and what is "outside," while simultaneously allowing subjects to articulate a conscious distance from that which they continue to embrace. Ideologies organize us around the useful vagueness of "master signifiers," big ideas that necessarily...