The affordances of lists

Contzen, Eva von

doi:10.1007/s41244-017-0062-6

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“…The key point of reference for such uses of the term is often Hutchby (2001) Technologies. 49 This formalist adaptation of the concept has begun to inspire intriguing scholarship; see, e.g., von Contzen's (2017) work on the affordances of lists or Jaussen's (2018) on those of catalogues. While much of this scholarship takes as its point of departure a specific form and asks for its affordances, I proceed the other way around: As I will outline, my point of departure is a particular affordancenamely the devaluation and symbolic injury of subjectswhich I tie to the formal repertoire of the invective mode.…”

Section: Affordance: Invective And/as Latent Potentialmentioning

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Invective Form in Popular Media Culture: Genre – Mode – Affordance

Kanzler

2021

Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift

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The following article outlines a way to conceptualize invective form in popular culture that is particularly interested in accommodating the range, fluidity, and slipperiness that define pop-cultural invectivity. It is an approach that draws on one very well-established concept of formal criticism – that of mode – and one concept that has recently been brought to the fold of formalist inquiry – that of affordance. I will argue that conceiving of invective form in popular culture as a mode and as an affordance allows to address the diversity and range of external forms by which pop-cultural invectivity operates. In addition, it brings into focus the fluidity that marks the repertoire of invective popular culture, its paradoxical tendency to gravitate toward routinization in more set conventions, only to conspicuously push against these conventions’ boundaries. Finally, to conceive of the invective valence of the mode’s repertoire not as a fixed property but as an affordance helps talk about the volatility and dynamism of invective performances in popular culture, the way in which their invective effects are contingent on the social positionality from and for which they realized, and the way in which their invective valence is open for resignification.

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Section: Affordance: Invective And/as Latent Potentialmentioning

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Invective Form in Popular Media Culture: Genre – Mode – Affordance

Kanzler

2021

Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift

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Introduction: Epistemic and Artistic List-Making

Barton

Böckling

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Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration

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The first chapter offers a substantial introduction that surveys previous scholarship on lists and list-making and situates the simple but versatile form of the list in its historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts. Starting with an etymological contextualization of the term list, the introduction presents the list as a piece in the making—a handicraft—to then embrace the literary, poetic, and cultural manifestations of list-making throughout the centuries. As it invites us to reflect on how art or knowledge is produced through enumeration, the introduction further provides a condensed, analytical, and original discussion of the list as an epistemic, a literary, and a visual form.

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Aesthetics of Enumeration: The Arma Christi in Medieval Visual Art

Wagner

2022

Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration

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The chapter explores pictorial representations of the Arma Christi in late medieval visual art under the premise of their list-like character. The aim is to explain how artists designed the representations of the Arma with a conceptual purpose regarding the interplay of aesthetics and functionality to tie the beholder’s gaze and thoughts to the Passion of Christ. As will be shown, an examination of the Arma from the perspective of enumeration enables a more theoretical understanding of the list and its potential in the late medieval practice of piety.

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The affordances of lists

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

Invective Form in Popular Media Culture: Genre – Mode – Affordance

Invective Form in Popular Media Culture: Genre – Mode – Affordance

Introduction: Epistemic and Artistic List-Making

Aesthetics of Enumeration: The Arma Christi in Medieval Visual Art

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