Metaphor as a political technology

Pikalo, Jernej (author), Podobnikar, Petra (author)

Discussions of political metaphors provide fertile grounds for understanding issues in political theory and political practice. The article departs from the established theoretical and methodological approaches to political metaphor (e.g., classical, conceptual, hermeneutical, cognitive) to introduce (post)structuralist and (post)Marxist methodological and theoretical bases. It maintains that the established approaches to the study of functionalities and ontologies of political metaphors are possible, primarily by researching their functioning in political discourses and as events in the power/truth dispositive. Metaphors can be researched as specific political technologies (strategies of power) that influence/create regimes of truth.

• Language: English
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 814–832, 889
• Numbering: Letn. 60, št. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154397
• UDC: 32:81'373.612.2
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.60.4.814
• COBISS.SI-ID: 183574531
• Publication date in RUL: 13.02.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Metafora kot politična tehnologija

Abstract

Razprava o političnih metaforah so plodna podlaga za razumevanje vprašanj v politični teoriji in politični praksi. Članek se odmika od uveljavljenih teoretskih in metodoloških pristopov k obravnavi politične metafore (npr. klasičnega, konceptualnega, hermenevtičnega, kognitivnega) in vpeljuje (post)strukturalistične in (post)marksistične metodološke in teoretske podlage. Zagovarja, da so uveljavljeni pristopi k preučevanju funkcionalnosti in ontologij političnih metafor možni predvsem z raziskovanjem njihovega delovanja v političnih diskurzih in kot dogodka(ov) v dispozitivu oblasti/ resnice. Metafore je mogoče obravnavati kot specifične politične tehnologije (strategije oblasti), ki vplivajo/ustvarjajo režime resnice.

• Keywords: politične metafore, politična teorija, teorije jezika, politični diskurz, oblast, vednost, political metaphors, political theory, linguistic theory, political discourse, power, knowledge