Dana L Cloud
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3470122 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dana L Cloud |
| NOMBRES | Dana L |
| APELLIDO | Cloud |
| FIRMA | CLOUD D L |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Networks of Queer Care
In their 2021 book Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care, Marty Fink cites AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz's famous statement during a 1988 protest: “If I die of AIDS—forget burial—just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A” (13). Fink's title invokes this moment as emblematic of the interconnectedness of sick bodies and activist challenges to the neoliberal state. This example moved me as I thought about the…
Their Hegemony—and Theirs
This essay explores the concept of hegemony as it is differently elaborated by Perry Anderson and Peter Thomas. I first provide an orientation to Gramsci's theory of hegemony and how it has been taken up in cultural and rhetorical studies. Then I explore Anderson's interventions into hegemony theory in the earlier Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci before a substantial review of The H-Word. I then discuss Peter Thomas's critique of Anderson's orientat…
The spiral of survival
This essay ruminates on the imperative of struggle against oppression as a condition for survival. While many circumstances encourage our resignation to oppressive power relations, there are revolutionary possibilities for human agency against injustice in interpersonal, social, institutional, and political domains of contemporary society
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
106 scholarly articles This is a compendium of touchstone articles by prominent communication, rhetorical, and cultural studies scholars about topics of interest to scholars and critics of popular and political culture. Articles provide authoritative surveys of concepts such as rhetorical construction of bodies, Marxist, feminist, and poststructuralist traditions, materialisms, social movements, race and anti-racist critique, whiteness, surveilla…
Resistance against Racism and the Figure of the Moor
This short essay is a response to Rachel N. Hastings's poem “Black Human.”
Reality Bites
AN ASTONISHING thirty years ago, I took graduate seminars in rhetorical theory and public address with John Lyne at the University of Iowa.It wasn't until I was reaching the end of writing this book-connecting epistemology, the rhetoric of science, and the rhetoric of the American Revolution-that I realized the degree to which I had internalized what he shared.Thank you, John, for your deep and lasting influence on my thinking.I offer thanks also…
G ramsci, A ntonio
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian socialist revolutionary imprisoned under fascist rule. While incarcerated, he composed a series of essays published as the Prison Notebooks . Using coded language to evade censors, he discussed the role of culture in maintaining capitalist hegemony. At the same time, he was optimistic about the people's capacity to resist subjugation. To that end, he recommended that intellectuals organic to the working class engage…
M arxism
Marxism is an Enlightenment political philosophy, historical method, and critical paradigm that has influenced communication theory since World War II. It interrogates the inherently exploitative character of labor in capitalism, affirms a vision of history driven by struggle from below, and connects the production and communication of ideas to the dominant influences of a ruling class. Its major contributions in communication theory have been to…
History and Class Consciousness / A Defense of the History of Class Consciousness
Dana L. CloudUniversity of Texas at Austin© 2015, Dana L. Cloud
Private Manning and the Chamber of Secrets
This article explores news coverage from 2010–2013 of Chelsea (formerly known as Bradley) Manning’s disclosures of both state and gender secrets to discover how government actors, journalists, and social movement leaders disciplined emergent truths in two modalities. The first modality is juridical, involving Manning’s trial and reporting that focuses attention exclusively on Manning’s crime against the state; the second is biopolitical, discipli…
Shock Therapy
This article examines coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the Oprah Winfrey Show. I argue that the Oprah Winfrey Show attempted to deploy therapeutic discourse to warrant what Naomi Klein (2008 Klein, N. (2008). Shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism. New York, NY: Picador. [Google Scholar]) calls the “shock doctrine”: an argument for the demolition of “failed” societies and states so that they can be rebuilt in the neoliberal image…
David, Goliath, and the Black Panthers
We Are the Union
This book engages union reformers at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cozy partnership between union leadership and corporate management. Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, the book renders a multi-layered account of the battles between the company and the union and within the union led by Unionists for Democratic Change and two other dissident grou…
We Are the Union
Agentic Orientation as Magical Voluntarism
In this essay we argue that the rhetoric of Foss, Waters, and Armada's recent work on “agentic orientation,” as well as the rhetoric of the popular bestselling DVD and book The Secret, are typical of “magical voluntarism.” Magical voluntarism is an idealist understanding of human agency in which a subject can fulfill her needs and desires by simple wish-fulfillment and the manipulation of symbols, irrelevant of structural constraint or material l…
(UN)Disciplining the Scholar Activist
The Irony Bribe and Reality Television
In season 11 of the ABC reality television program The Bachelor, bachelor Brad Womack refused to choose a mate, thus breaking the romantic contract that is the essence of this reality show. In doing so, Womack exposed the emptiness of the mythic romantic script, prompting both invested outrage and ironic detachment among viewers. An analysis of the contradictions upon which the show's fantasy founders (thus encouraging an ironic response), alongs…
Foiling the Intellectuals
This article introduces the concept of identity framing by foil. Characteristics of this communicative mechanism are drawn from analysis of my personal archive of conservative hate mail. I identify 3 key adversarial identity frames attributed to me in the correspondence: elitist intellectual, national traitor, and gender traitor. These identity frames serve as foils against which the authors' letters articulate identities as real men and patriots…
Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential Assassination Attempts, 1973-2001
There were 7 assassination attempts on U.S. presidents between 1973 and 2001. In this article, we critically examine coverage of each attack in The New York Times and The Washington Post, describing how the coverage employs therapeutic discourse frames that position the president as vulnerable and portray the attackers as lonely and demented outsiders. Noticing contradictions in this pattern, we also identify counterframes, including those acknow…
On Dialectics and “ Duel ism”
The Matrix and Critical Theory's Desertion of the Real
This article uses the narratives of the popular films The Matrix, Matrix: Reloaded, and Matrix: Revolutions as a lens through which to discuss the problems of the real and human agency in contemporary critical theory. Alongside a reading of the films’ invocations of social theory, the article describes parallel academic theories whose strongest structuralist and poststructuralist manifestations abandon conceptions of the real and willful human ag…
To veil the threat of terror”
This article explores the role of widely circulated images of Afghan people in building public support for the 2001–2002 U.S. war with Afghanistan. Emphasizing images of women, I argue that these representations participate in the more general category of “the clash of civilizations,” which constitutes a verbal and a visual ideograph linked to the idea of the “white man's burden.” Through the construction of binary oppositions of self and Other, …
Rhetoric and economics
Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness. By James Arnt Aune. New York: Guilford, 2001; pp. 217. $30.00. The War Against the Poor. By Herbert Gans. New York: Basic, 1995; pp. 195. $12.60. Created Unequal. By James Galbraith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000; pp. 368. $26.00. Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. By Robert McChesney. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1999; pp. 427. $34.95…
Laboring under the Sign of the New
Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics
The limits of interpretation
A structural analysis of the racial oppositions in the television program Spenser: For Hire challenges the interpretivist media studies claim that popular culture texts are necessarily polysemic. The article argues that representations of racial difference, in particular, are not polysemic but are rather ambivalent within the structure of the racist stereotype. The character Hawk's oppositional stance and persona, though subject to contradictory …
The Irony Bribe and Reality Television
In season 11 of the ABC reality television program The Bachelor, bachelor Brad Womack refused to choose a mate, thus breaking the romantic contract that is the essence of this reality show. In doing so, Womack exposed the emptiness of the mythic romantic script, prompting both invested outrage and ironic detachment among viewers. An analysis of the contradictions upon which the show's fantasy founders (thus encouraging an ironic response), alongs…
To veil the threat of terror”
This article explores the role of widely circulated images of Afghan people in building public support for the 2001–2002 U.S. war with Afghanistan. Emphasizing images of women, I argue that these representations participate in the more general category of “the clash of civilizations,” which constitutes a verbal and a visual ideograph linked to the idea of the “white man's burden.” Through the construction of binary oppositions of self and Other, …
Reality Bites
AN ASTONISHING thirty years ago, I took graduate seminars in rhetorical theory and public address with John Lyne at the University of Iowa.It wasn't until I was reaching the end of writing this book-connecting epistemology, the rhetoric of science, and the rhetoric of the American Revolution-that I realized the degree to which I had internalized what he shared.Thank you, John, for your deep and lasting influence on my thinking.I offer thanks also…
The Matrix and Critical Theory's Desertion of the Real
This article uses the narratives of the popular films The Matrix, Matrix: Reloaded, and Matrix: Revolutions as a lens through which to discuss the problems of the real and human agency in contemporary critical theory. Alongside a reading of the films’ invocations of social theory, the article describes parallel academic theories whose strongest structuralist and poststructuralist manifestations abandon conceptions of the real and willful human ag…
Foiling the Intellectuals
This article introduces the concept of identity framing by foil. Characteristics of this communicative mechanism are drawn from analysis of my personal archive of conservative hate mail. I identify 3 key adversarial identity frames attributed to me in the correspondence: elitist intellectual, national traitor, and gender traitor. These identity frames serve as foils against which the authors' letters articulate identities as real men and patriots…
Shock Therapy
This article examines coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the Oprah Winfrey Show. I argue that the Oprah Winfrey Show attempted to deploy therapeutic discourse to warrant what Naomi Klein (2008 Klein, N. (2008). Shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism. New York, NY: Picador. [Google Scholar]) calls the “shock doctrine”: an argument for the demolition of “failed” societies and states so that they can be rebuilt in the neoliberal image…
Agentic Orientation as Magical Voluntarism
In this essay we argue that the rhetoric of Foss, Waters, and Armada's recent work on “agentic orientation,” as well as the rhetoric of the popular bestselling DVD and book The Secret, are typical of “magical voluntarism.” Magical voluntarism is an idealist understanding of human agency in which a subject can fulfill her needs and desires by simple wish-fulfillment and the manipulation of symbols, irrelevant of structural constraint or material l…
(UN)Disciplining the Scholar Activist
Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential Assassination Attempts, 1973-2001
There were 7 assassination attempts on U.S. presidents between 1973 and 2001. In this article, we critically examine coverage of each attack in The New York Times and The Washington Post, describing how the coverage employs therapeutic discourse frames that position the president as vulnerable and portray the attackers as lonely and demented outsiders. Noticing contradictions in this pattern, we also identify counterframes, including those acknow…
Private Manning and the Chamber of Secrets
This article explores news coverage from 2010–2013 of Chelsea (formerly known as Bradley) Manning’s disclosures of both state and gender secrets to discover how government actors, journalists, and social movement leaders disciplined emergent truths in two modalities. The first modality is juridical, involving Manning’s trial and reporting that focuses attention exclusively on Manning’s crime against the state; the second is biopolitical, discipli…
Rhetoric and economics
Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness. By James Arnt Aune. New York: Guilford, 2001; pp. 217. $30.00. The War Against the Poor. By Herbert Gans. New York: Basic, 1995; pp. 195. $12.60. Created Unequal. By James Galbraith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000; pp. 368. $26.00. Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. By Robert McChesney. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1999; pp. 427. $34.95…
The limits of interpretation
A structural analysis of the racial oppositions in the television program Spenser: For Hire challenges the interpretivist media studies claim that popular culture texts are necessarily polysemic. The article argues that representations of racial difference, in particular, are not polysemic but are rather ambivalent within the structure of the racist stereotype. The character Hawk's oppositional stance and persona, though subject to contradictory …
Hegemony or concordance? The rhetoric of tokenism in “Oprah” Oprah rags‐to‐riches biography
This article examines television and print biographies of television talk show host and producer Oprah Winfrey. Conventional biographical narratives construct a token “Oprah” persona whose life story resonates with and reinforces the ideology of the American Dream, implying the accessibility of this dream to black Americans despite the structural economic and political barriers posed in a racist society to achievement and survival. The article de…
Concordance, complexity, and conservatism
Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics
Laboring under the Sign of the New
Rhetoric and economics
Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness. By James Arnt Aune. New York: Guilford, 2001; pp. 217. $30.00. The War Against the Poor. By Herbert Gans. New York: Basic, 1995; pp. 195. $12.60. Created Unequal. By James Galbraith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000; pp. 368. $26.00. Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. By Robert McChesney. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1999; pp. 427. $34.95…
To veil the threat of terror”
This article explores the role of widely circulated images of Afghan people in building public support for the 2001–2002 U.S. war with Afghanistan. Emphasizing images of women, I argue that these representations participate in the more general category of “the clash of civilizations,” which constitutes a verbal and a visual ideograph linked to the idea of the “white man's burden.” Through the construction of binary oppositions of self and Other, …
The Matrix and Critical Theory's Desertion of the Real
This article uses the narratives of the popular films The Matrix, Matrix: Reloaded, and Matrix: Revolutions as a lens through which to discuss the problems of the real and human agency in contemporary critical theory. Alongside a reading of the films’ invocations of social theory, the article describes parallel academic theories whose strongest structuralist and poststructuralist manifestations abandon conceptions of the real and willful human ag…
On Dialectics and “ Duel ism”
Foiling the Intellectuals
This article introduces the concept of identity framing by foil. Characteristics of this communicative mechanism are drawn from analysis of my personal archive of conservative hate mail. I identify 3 key adversarial identity frames attributed to me in the correspondence: elitist intellectual, national traitor, and gender traitor. These identity frames serve as foils against which the authors' letters articulate identities as real men and patriots…
Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential Assassination Attempts, 1973-2001
There were 7 assassination attempts on U.S. presidents between 1973 and 2001. In this article, we critically examine coverage of each attack in The New York Times and The Washington Post, describing how the coverage employs therapeutic discourse frames that position the president as vulnerable and portray the attackers as lonely and demented outsiders. Noticing contradictions in this pattern, we also identify counterframes, including those acknow…
Agentic Orientation as Magical Voluntarism
In this essay we argue that the rhetoric of Foss, Waters, and Armada's recent work on “agentic orientation,” as well as the rhetoric of the popular bestselling DVD and book The Secret, are typical of “magical voluntarism.” Magical voluntarism is an idealist understanding of human agency in which a subject can fulfill her needs and desires by simple wish-fulfillment and the manipulation of symbols, irrelevant of structural constraint or material l…
(UN)Disciplining the Scholar Activist
The Irony Bribe and Reality Television
In season 11 of the ABC reality television program The Bachelor, bachelor Brad Womack refused to choose a mate, thus breaking the romantic contract that is the essence of this reality show. In doing so, Womack exposed the emptiness of the mythic romantic script, prompting both invested outrage and ironic detachment among viewers. An analysis of the contradictions upon which the show's fantasy founders (thus encouraging an ironic response), alongs…
We Are the Union
This book engages union reformers at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cozy partnership between union leadership and corporate management. Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, the book renders a multi-layered account of the battles between the company and the union and within the union led by Unionists for Democratic Change and two other dissident grou…
We Are the Union
David, Goliath, and the Black Panthers
Private Manning and the Chamber of Secrets
This article explores news coverage from 2010–2013 of Chelsea (formerly known as Bradley) Manning’s disclosures of both state and gender secrets to discover how government actors, journalists, and social movement leaders disciplined emergent truths in two modalities. The first modality is juridical, involving Manning’s trial and reporting that focuses attention exclusively on Manning’s crime against the state; the second is biopolitical, discipli…
Shock Therapy
This article examines coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the Oprah Winfrey Show. I argue that the Oprah Winfrey Show attempted to deploy therapeutic discourse to warrant what Naomi Klein (2008 Klein, N. (2008). Shock doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism. New York, NY: Picador. [Google Scholar]) calls the “shock doctrine”: an argument for the demolition of “failed” societies and states so that they can be rebuilt in the neoliberal image…
History and Class Consciousness / A Defense of the History of Class Consciousness
Dana L. CloudUniversity of Texas at Austin© 2015, Dana L. Cloud
G ramsci, A ntonio
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian socialist revolutionary imprisoned under fascist rule. While incarcerated, he composed a series of essays published as the Prison Notebooks . Using coded language to evade censors, he discussed the role of culture in maintaining capitalist hegemony. At the same time, he was optimistic about the people's capacity to resist subjugation. To that end, he recommended that intellectuals organic to the working class engage…
M arxism
Marxism is an Enlightenment political philosophy, historical method, and critical paradigm that has influenced communication theory since World War II. It interrogates the inherently exploitative character of labor in capitalism, affirms a vision of history driven by struggle from below, and connects the production and communication of ideas to the dominant influences of a ruling class. Its major contributions in communication theory have been to…
Resistance against Racism and the Figure of the Moor
This short essay is a response to Rachel N. Hastings's poem “Black Human.”
Reality Bites
AN ASTONISHING thirty years ago, I took graduate seminars in rhetorical theory and public address with John Lyne at the University of Iowa.It wasn't until I was reaching the end of writing this book-connecting epistemology, the rhetoric of science, and the rhetoric of the American Revolution-that I realized the degree to which I had internalized what he shared.Thank you, John, for your deep and lasting influence on my thinking.I offer thanks also…
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies
106 scholarly articles This is a compendium of touchstone articles by prominent communication, rhetorical, and cultural studies scholars about topics of interest to scholars and critics of popular and political culture. Articles provide authoritative surveys of concepts such as rhetorical construction of bodies, Marxist, feminist, and poststructuralist traditions, materialisms, social movements, race and anti-racist critique, whiteness, surveilla…
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