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Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture or Laclau’s political ontology?
2018
AbstractThe present article concentrates on the main discrepancies that should arise in the discussion between Lotman’s semiotics of culture and Laclau’s discursive theory of hegemony. Some significant – but still abstract – commonalities conceal fundamental disagreements which I would group around four topics. Firstly, Lotman’s semiotic method is at odds with Laclau’s ontological way of thinking. Secondly, although both Lotman and Laclau subscribe to the openness of signification, it is impossible to incorporate their accounts of this openness without loose ends. In order to substantiate this claim, I examine Lotman’s concept of “boundary” and Laclau’s concept of the “limit.” Thirdly, we s…
Ernesto Laclau: universalismi, partikularismi ja kysymys identiteetistä
2020
Käännös suomeksi Ernesto Laclaun artikkelista "Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity" (1992): "Universalismi, partikularismi ja kysymys identiteetistä". Käännös: Emilia Palonen ja Jouni Tilli. Non peer reviewed
Production of Cultural Policy in Russia: Authority and Intellectual Leadership
2020
The paper discusses different frameworks of knowledge production within the discourses and practices of Russian cultural policy. Russian cultural policy as an administrative sector has been developed in line with two distinctive governmental regimes, more precisely during the period of liberal decentralisation of the 1990s and the conservative centralisation from 2011 up until today. The study focuses on the main changes that have occurred in the framework of policy design and participation in policy-making. An attempt is made to combine Foucauldian analytical frameworks of power and discourse with a Gramscian hegemonic approach to political studies that was mainly advocated by the Essex sc…
Elogio del populismo (en ciertas circunstancias). Notas sobre el kirchnerismo en Argentina
2014
Los trabajos de Ernesto Laclau (2005, 2009) han inspirado una teoría política del populismo que constituye una superación de los enfoques precedentes y que conviene revisar como andamiaje analítico y heurístico. Esta teoría nos ayuda a reconstruir tres dimensiones polémicas que han sido objeto de los estudios sobre la temática. Primero, el populismo asociado a un tipo de discurso. Segundo, como una lógica política que apunta a la producción de una identidad popular (el pueblo) a partir de la interpelación y de la articulación. Tercero, como un proceso político que refiere a la inclusión radical, la transformación del orden social y su relación con la democracia. Como veremos, esta diferenci…
Jako kahteen: Populismi kansan tekijänä ja demokratian peilinä. Ernesto Laclaun populismiteorian tarkastelua
2015
Ernesto Laclau reading Michel Foucault : Foucault as a target for hegemony
2015
In contrast to the tendency of other presently celebrated post-structuralist intellectuals, such as Giorgio Agamben and up to a certain extent Judith Butler, who make persistent efforts to support their work through the provision of frequent references to the work of Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau, the first popular post-structuralist theorist on British soil, opted to provide only a few references to Foucault, which actually were not always equally approbatory of the latter’s work. By drawing attention to these few references, this article aims to thematize Laclau’s relationship with Foucault as a quite interesting case for the understanding of present-day flows in the exchange of ideas o…
Más allá de Marx: postobrerismo y posmarxismo. Una revisión de los fundamentos teóricos de la multitud y el pueblo
2018
The article is a synthetic essay that exposes the main theoretical lines of the postmarxist approach of Laclau and Mouffe, on the one hand, and the autonomist post-operaism of Negri, Hardt, Virno, etc., on the other hand. These theories are conceived as attempts to rationalize current political bets by various political sectors and social movements. It analyzes both argumentative strategies from «orthodox» Marxism and the structure / superstructure relationship; and the forms of constitution of new subjectivities. It compares the theoretical fundamentals of hegemonic articulations and counter-power experiences. It discusses, likewise, the scope and limitations of the categories of «people» …
Ideologian jäljillä : perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteiden arvoperustan poliittinen analyysi
2016
Perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteet on lainsäädännön ohella merkittävin asiakirja, jolla perusopetuksen toimintaa ohjataan ja määritellään Suomessa. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastelen POPS2014-opetussuunnitelmaa poliittisena dokumenttina, joka on syntynyt eri intressiryhmien valtataistelun tuloksena. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, millaisia ideologisia piirteitä opetussuunnitelman arvoperustaan on artikuloitu ja millaisilla artikulaatioilla hegemoniaa pyritään rakentamaan. Tutkimus perustuu laclaulaiseen diskurssiteoriaan, joka on jälkifoundationalistinen viitekehys ja ongelmalähtöinen metodi. Tässä tutkimuksessa lähestymistapa mahdollistaa neutraaleilta ja luonnollisilta näyt…
DIALECTIC AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY IN ERNESTO LACLAU
2020
The present article aims to examine critically Laclau’s claim that the trend toward social heterogenization revokes the Dialectic, or, more specifically, the clear and strict line of demarcation between what falls within the Dialectic and what falls outside of it. Polemicizing with the assumption of this reading, I argue that the appearance of a radical heterogeneity rather exposes the undecidability of relations between the Dialectic and what is a heterogeneity. To undergo the experience of this relation means not only to confront something that dislocates the Dialectic, but also what makes it what it is. The concrete determination of this limit relation is precisely what is at stake in th…
Performative Control and Rhetoric in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Response to COVID-19
2021
This article analyses how specific nodal points of performative control developed and consequently structured the discourse on Aotearoa New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It identifies these points by adopting a rhetorical-performative approach to uncover three particular performances of control that articulated the pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand, from the diagnosis of the first COVID-19 case in the country in February 2020 through to October 2020. This period of analysis covers the emergence, subsequent nationwide lockdown, elimination, and re-emergence of the virus. There are three distinct nodal points that unfold as key to the nation’s ability to control COVID-19: the he…