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Book SynopsisMaterial Discourse Materialist Analysis explores the entanglement of material realities and discourse and shows how a materialist discourse analysis can be put into practice.A cognate concern for language and discourse, as well as well as materiality and materialism can look back on a long tradition in the Social Sciences and Humanities. This book makes their relation an explicit focus. Located at the intersections of materialism and Discourse Studies, it highlights the materiality of discourse and the entanglement of matter and meaning.The essays collected in this volume are united by a rejection of static dichotomies such as discursive / material, language / materiality or material / immaterial. Rather than presenting materialism and Discourse Studies as distinct from one another, they are shown to be intimately entwined. The book brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from a whole range of disciplines, fields, and academic contexts in a truly transdisciplinary and
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Material-Discursive Entanglements: Locating Materialist Discourse Studies (Johannes Beetz and Veit Schwab) Chapter 1. Materialist Discourse Analysis as Social Critique: Combining Critical Theory with Discourse Studies (Benno Herzog) Chapter 2. The Second Disappearance of Michel Pêcheux (Jean-Jacques Courtine) Chapter 3. Materialist Discourse Analysis: Three Moments and Some Criteria (Johannes Beetz and Veit Schwab) Chapter 4. The Black Consciousness Movement in Brazil: A Materialist-Enunciative Approach to Discourse Analysis (Helio Oliveira) Chapter 5. Heterogeneous Materialities on YouTube: A Discursive Analysis From a Brazilian Point of View (Ligia Mara Boin Menossi de Araújo, Marco Antonio Almeida Ruiz and Roberto Leiser Baronas) Chapter 6. Unspeakable Articulations: Steps Towards a Materialist Discourse Theory (Benjamin Glasson) Chapter 7. Contingent Materialities as Sedimented Articulations: Anti-Essentialist Discourse Analysis and Materialism at the Nexus of IR and Political Theory (Laura Pantzerhielm ) Chapter 8. Marxism and Discourse: On the Meta-Theoretical Foundation of a Critical Materialist Discourse Analysis (Manuel Iretzberger) Chapter 9. Semiosis and Discursivity of the Commodity-Form: The Role of the ’Commodity-Message Model’ in Ferruccio Rossi-Landi’s Materialist Semiotics (Giorgio Borrelli) Chapter 10. Desire, Queer Politics, and the Materiality of Experience: Early Asexual Discourses in Online Communities (Julia Maria Zimmermann)
