Politics and the political in discourse studies: state of the art and a call for an intensified focus on the meta political dimension of communication

Zienkowski, Jan
(2017) Symposium on Metapolitics and Metapolitical Discourse — Location: Pamplona (14.September.2017)

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Based on an overview of the ways in which politics and the political have been thought in critical discourse analysis (CDA), the author calls for a focus on the metapolitical dimension of discourse. The author develops his notion of metapolitics on the basis of post-foundational insights into politics, the political and processes of (de-) politicization. Metapolitics refers to projects and struggles where conflicting modes and models of politics clash. Metapolitical debates potentially reshape the structure of the public realm as well as the entities, borders and processes that constitute it. The author differentiates his use of the term from the way this signifier has been used by the New Right and its heirs. Doing so, he demonstrates that metapolitical projects can be democratic as well as anti-democratic. In order to facilitate discourse analyses of metapolitical projects, debates and struggles, the author suggests that the metapolitical dimension of contemporary debates can be explored further by integrating insights from governmentality studies, studies of political rationality and the discourse theoretical logics approach further into existing approaches within critical discourse studies.
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Zienkowski, J. (2017). Politics and the political in discourse studies: state of the art and a call for an intensified focus on the meta political dimension of communication. Symposium on Metapolitics and Metapolitical Discourse, Pamplona. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/91547