"Our Bruised Arms Hung Up as Monuments": Nuclear Iconography in Post-Cold War Culture

Taylor, Bryan C.

doi:10.1080/0739318032000067065

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“…Scholars have developed a critical iconology of images to understand post-Cold War nuclear culture (Taylor, 2003) or U.S. presidential campaign ads depicting children (Sherr, 1999), and they employ theories of symbolic convergence to analyze political cartoons of the Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr investigation and impeachment case (Benoit et al, 2001). A recurring theme in rhetorical studies of cultural memory is the discourse surrounding new technologies (e.g., Stein, 2002).…”

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Mapping Visual Studies in Communication

Barnhurst

Vari

Rodríguez

2004

Journal of Communication

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This essay documents the main currents of visual studies in communication.After a brief history of the emergence of the field, we review the record of published research in books and journals during the past 5 years, identifying major strains of theory, key issues, and topical categories. We then apply the strains of thought to classify papers presented at the ICA conferences, noting patterns and shifts across and within ICA divisions and interest groups. Based on these patterns, as well as on informal input from colleagues, we map the discipline formation of visual studies and identify trends in institutional development. We conclude by exploring future directions for the field now that the visual interest group has grown to become the Visual Studies Division of ICA.

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Section: Periodical Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Visual Studies in Communication

Barnhurst

Vari

Rodríguez

2004

Journal of Communication

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“…These are images with a piercing quality-what Barthes (1981) calls punctumthe resonances of which can reverberate across the planes of our existence (Bachelard, 1964). Many of these images form part of our collective memory, icons of a particular moment in time or of a shared experience (Hariman & Lucaites, 2003;Taylor, 2003). However, some images have a force that is solitary, private, and individual (Barthes, 1981;Brunius, 1970;Ingarden, 1985).…”

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Sublimity & the Image: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration

Goble

2013

P&P

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For over 2000 years, the sublime has been a source of fascination for philosophers, artists, and even the general public at times. We have written hundreds of treatises on the subject, put forth innumerable definitions and explanations, and even tried to reproduce it in art and literature. But, despite our efforts, our understanding of the sublime remains elusive. In this paper, the sublime is explored as a potential human experience that can be evoked by an image. Drawing upon concrete experiences, the phenomenon of sublimity suggests a compelling, embodied response to the visual object that can evoke a fundamental change of being.

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“…A related scholarly focus here involves the role of media systems in facilitating nuclear democracy. Elsewhere (Taylor 2003, 8), I have summarized the threats to this ideal posed by postwar media institutions and their programming, including: the historical complicity of media corporations economically linked with nuclear‐corporate contractors, censorship of images of victims of the Japanese atomic bombings, endorsement of anti‐Communist purification of domestic subversives, demonization of external enemies to justify a permanent war economy, depoliticizing nuclear test explosions as mythological wonders and victimless spectacles occurring in “uninhabited” areas, and depicting dubious antiballistic missile technologies as necessary and legitimate. To this summary may be added Rojecki's (1999) historical study of the challenges faced by anti‐nuclear social movements in securing favorable media coverage of their interests.…”

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“The Means to Match Their Hatred”: Nuclear Weapons, Rhetorical Democracy, and Presidential Discourse

Taylor

2007

Pres Stud Q

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The persistence of nuclear weapons evokes four critical issues: they continue to pose significant risk in the absence of compelling security needs; they embody technological autonomy and institutional indifference to democratic deliberation; they are represented in mythic and religious presidential rhetoric that hypocritically celebrates American virtue while unproductively demonizing nuclear opponents; and they remain understudied by rhetorical scholars. This essay responds by conceptualizing the challenges posed by nuclear weapons to the ideal of a rhetorical democracy, and historicizes the related role of presidential rhetoric. It concludes with a tentative vision of presidential rhetoric and rhetorical criticism consistent with a nuclear‐rhetorical democracy.

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"Our Bruised Arms Hung Up as Monuments": Nuclear Iconography in Post-Cold War Culture

Cited by 23 publications

References 53 publications

Mapping Visual Studies in Communication

Mapping Visual Studies in Communication

Sublimity & the Image: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration

“The Means to Match Their Hatred”: Nuclear Weapons, Rhetorical Democracy, and Presidential Discourse

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