<div dir="ltr">Hi Aurora, thank you for circulating this wonderful panel. I may be submitting to you a paper proposal dealing with responsibility and evidence involved in imagistic multimodal discourses in the media, including the very recent state-level controversy surrounding the use of map representations in the Netflix documentary, The Devil Next Door, that occasioned a formal protest from Morawiecki, the prime minister of Poland. Among other ways for triangulating the problem of responsibility, authenticity, evidence and performativity in imagistic discourses, I would be drawing on the work of Christopher Ball (2017). Working title, "A picture is worth a thousand words. Or is it? Responsibility, evidence and performativity in the mapping of evil." <div><br></div><div>This is just to give you heads up. I will be able to develop the abstract this weekend. Still working on my Vancouver paper. Are you coming to the AAAs this year?</div><div><br></div><div>Warm greetings,</div><div><br></div><div>janina</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:25 AM Aurora Donzelli <<a href="mailto:adonzelli@sarahlawrence.edu">adonzelli@sarahlawrence.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Aurora Donzelli, Sarah Lawrence College, NY
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><font face="HelveticaNeue">Our contemporary moment is often represented as marked by the progressive extension of market logics to every domain of human existence and interaction (Brown 2003, 2006; Cruikshank
1993; Martin 2000; Rose 1990; etc.). Key to this process has been the institution of novel paradigms for determining moral and epistemic standards of conduct. The ideal neoliberal subject is imagined to be engaged in the moral project of maximizing the value
of one’s human capital, as well as a constant evidencing of one’s engagement with such responsibility of self-development. Institutional, technological, and political economic configurations constantly monitor and assess individuals in these terms, guiding
them towards internalization of such discourse through self-modulation. A growing ethnographic literature has thus shown how the contemporary world is characterized by the proliferation of evidentiary regimes based on ideals of transparency and moral standards
pivoting on notions of accountability and individual entrepreneurialism (see for, example, Cavanaugh 2016; Gershon 2011,
<span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">Matza 2009; Shore and Wright 2003;
</span>Strathern 2000; Urciuoli 2008; West and Sanders 2003). But we still lack a fuller account of how these larger discursive formations impact the grain of everyday life, structuring our daily encounters and interactions. Drawing on the seminal volume edited
by Hill and Irvine (1993) and extending its insights into contemporary political economic context, this panel explores of how situated language use participates in producing the specific notions of knowledge and agency that characterize the late capitalist
present. Our goal is to “turn the tools of linguistic anthropology” to further our understanding of how neoliberal notions of responsibility and evidence are both produced and challenged through actual instances of discursive activity (Hill and Irvine 1993:
3). Specific questions addressed by contributions may include: </font></p>
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</span>What kinds of discursive practices and styles come to be valued as transparent, moral, and responsible under neoliberalism, and by what semiotic processes?<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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</span>How do neoliberal models of responsibility and evidence affect contemporary linguistic and semiotic styles of political self-presentation and participation?
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</span>What do debates on fake news and (un-)accountable political practices reveal about the new moral and epistemic standards of our times?
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</span>How do the moral and epistemic paradigms of our present shape linguistic practices in the workplace? How do they affect contemporary forms of material production and semiotic circulation of commodities, though certification protocols, (re-)branding
strategies, and new technologies of the working self? How are they resisted and subverted through specific patterns of communicative behavior?<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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</span> How do shifting ideologies about ideal displays and enactments of responsibility, agency, and desire lead to new models of ideal personhood?<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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</span>What new evidentiary regimes do conditions of late capitalism, including those of precarity, surveillance, and inequality, represent?<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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</span>How do neoliberal modes of governance construct different populations as (ir)responsible, (im)moral, (un)truthful, or (un)trustworthy?<u></u><u></u></font></p>
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