“Sighting” the public: iconoclasm and public sphere theory

Finnegan, Cara A.; Kang, Jiyeon

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“…Designating the space where production and cultural experience meet, the 'block of real life' is a site of struggle between different groups over the control, regulation and production of communication, fantasy, intense images, and possibilities. Accordingly, from this perspective, conflicts in the public sphere are frequently struggles around iconoclasm, or the struggle to control images about what can be discussed in civil society (see Finnegan & Kang, 2004). For example, Asen (2002) notes that countless social situations and contexts are mediated through 'collective imagining' that often operate as taken-for-granted 'shared assumptions, values, perceptions, and beliefs for matters identified explicitly as topics of discussion' (Asen, 2002, p. 351).…”

Section: The Public Sphere and Expressionmentioning

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Expressive Free Speech, the State and the Public Sphere: A Bakhtinian–Deleuzian Analysis of ‘Public Address’ at Hyde Park

Roberts

2008

Social Movement Studies

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In this paper I explore how struggles around free speech between social movements and the state are often underpinned by a deeper struggle around expressive images of what counts as either 'decent' or 'indecent' discussion. These points are developed by exploring what is arguably the most famous populist place for free speech in Britain, namely Hyde Park. In 1872 the state introduced the Parks Regulation Act in order to regulate, amongst other things, populist uses of free speech at Hyde Park. However, although the 1872 Act designated a site in Hyde Park for public meetings, it did not mention 'free speech'. Rather, the 1872 Act legally enforced the liberty to make a 'public address' and this was implicitly contrasted by the state of an expressive image of 'indecent' speakers exercising their 'right' of free speech at Hyde Park. Once constructed, the humiliating image of 'indecent' free speech could then be used by the state to regulate actual utterances of public speakers at Hyde Park. But the paper shows how in the years immediately following 1872 a battle was fought out in Hyde Park over the expressive image of public address between the state and regulars using Hyde Park as a public sphere to exercise free speech. For its part the state had to engage in meaningful deliberative forms of discussion within its own regulatory framework and with the public sphere at Hyde Park in order to maintain the legal form, content and expression of the 1872 Act. To draw out the implications of these points I employ some of the theoretical ideas of the Bakhtin Circle and Gilles Deleuze. Each set of thinkers in their own way make valuable contributions for understanding the relationship between the state, public sphere and expressive images.

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Section: The Public Sphere and Expressionmentioning

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Expressive Free Speech, the State and the Public Sphere: A Bakhtinian–Deleuzian Analysis of ‘Public Address’ at Hyde Park

Roberts

2008

Social Movement Studies

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“…Pero el estudio de la esfera pública no puede abordarse solo en referencia a lo visual, como si el discurso visual pudiera separarse nítidamente de otras formaciones discursivasmaterialidad, textualidad, perfomatividad-con las que interactúa. No se trata tampoco de incluir a lo visual dentro de los procesos de construcción discursiva de la esfera pública como dimensión adicional sino de estudiar cómo la visualidad participa activamente en esa construcción (Finnegan y Kang, 2004). Estas relaciones están marcadas en la tradición filosófica occidental por las ansiedades ligadas a las imágenes y la visión, articuladas tanto en términos de iconofobia -el temor y la sospecha frente a las imágenes-como de iconoclastia, la voluntad de controlar las imágenes.…”

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“…En los últimos años han abundado las iniciativas dirigidas a ese objetivo. El término de pantalla pública se articula con el de esfera pública (DeLuca y Peeples, 2002;Finnegan y Kang, 2004). La ubicuidad física de pantallas en los espacios públicos abre un campo de relaciones sobre la creación de comunidades generadas en torno a la representación (Brea, 2007;Martín Prada, 2012).…”

Section: La Esfera Pública Y Las Condiciones Contemporáneas De La Imagenunclassified

Imágenes públicas: cultura visual y la redefinición de la esfera pública

Luna

2019

Política Soc.

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La expansión contemporánea de las imágenes implica cambios profundos en el concepto de la esfera pública. El artículo parte de la problemática definición del objeto de estudio de la cultura visual. La complejidad de este objeto hace que las aproximaciones provenientes de este campo de estudio queden diluidas en enfoques mediocéntricos que impiden el análisis de las transformaciones que las condiciones de la imagen contemporánea provocan en la esfera pública. Con el fin de elaborar un marco para el estudio de las articulaciones entre imagen y esfera pública, el artículo presta atención a algunos conceptos propios de la imagen y la visualidad contemporáneas como ubicuidad, pantalla, circulación, agencia o imaginación. Finalmente se propone la revisión del concepto de esfera pública entendida como móvil, interconectada y descentralizada.

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“…None of the cameras, however, directed their gaze upon these unsafe working practices even though the building site was within their range (Coleman et al 2005(Coleman et al , 2517. CCTV is, thus, a powerful mechanism for enrolling people, discourses and objects around constructed 'matters of concern' (see Latour 2005) and demonstrates that the struggle to control everyday images and their meaning, namely, iconoclasm (Finnegan and Kang 2004), is also a struggle over space, technology and the 'public interest' of who is allowed to go where (on media and public interest, see Feintuck and Varney 2006;Livingstone and Lunt 2007).…”

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Public Spaces of Dissent

Roberts

2008

Sociology Compass

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This article looks at some recent developments in the relationship between public space and dissent. The article does this by firstly distinguishing between dissent and resistance. Dissent is based broadly around disagreements between individuals in particular groups and contexts against a perceived grievance of some sort. As a result dissent can arise in a variety of contexts, especially within everyday life, popular culture, and with small acts of defiance against frustrations one experiences. These acts can also assume more overtly political modes in the form of resistance as when people demonstrate in the streets. The distinction is therefore useful because it helps us understand how the state and other governance mechanisms adopt policies and strategies to pre‐empt dissent and thereby prevent dissent from spilling over into resistance located in particular places. The article will examine how the state and governance have changed the way in which they pre‐empt the formation of spaces of dissent in order to effectively regulate them in the pre‐ and post‐9/11 climate. Taking examples from the USA and the UK, the paper explores these points through global social movements, law and dissent, planning and designing dissent, and the surveillance of dissent.

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“Sighting” the public: iconoclasm and public sphere theory

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Expressive Free Speech, the State and the Public Sphere: A Bakhtinian–Deleuzian Analysis of ‘Public Address’ at Hyde Park

Expressive Free Speech, the State and the Public Sphere: A Bakhtinian–Deleuzian Analysis of ‘Public Address’ at Hyde Park

Imágenes públicas: cultura visual y la redefinición de la esfera pública

Public Spaces of Dissent

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