Transgressive Forms Research Articles

Strangled Women: Popular Culture, ‘Conservative Modernity’ and Erotic Violence in Britain, c.1890–1950

ABSTRACT This article analyses popular novels and films in early-mid twentieth-century Britain. It argues that strangled women were increasingly depicted in violent narratives of adventure and domination by a male lover. The mass female audience for these erotic fictions demonstrates the psychic realm of escapism embedded within Alison Light’s paradigmatic framework of ‘conservative modernity’. During the interwar period, an erotic imaginary of sexual violence emerged that glamourised non-fatal manual strangulation as a transgressive form of courtship. This built on a late-Victorian cultural script of the ‘monstrous stranger’ that persisted into the twentieth century. Strangled women were commodified and normalised as mass entertainment by the 1940s, becoming the acceptable face of sexual violence.

"Olympic Hope": Fucoldian interpretations

The study of literary works devoted to running makes it possible to determine their plot dominant as a conflict between the feeling of freedom generated by running and such properties of professional sports as fierce competition of competitive activities and authoritarian regulation of the training process. Sociocultural tensions of this kind were fruitfully conceptualized in the works of Michel Foucault using the concepts of bio-power as a unity of anatomical and biopolitics; disciplinary practices as methods of normalization of bodies; supervision and panopticism as means of control, as well as technologies of self and subjectivation aimed at dampening the effects of excessive domination. The article uses the fantastic sports novel by Danish writer Knud Lundberg "Olympic Hope: The Story that Happened at the 1996 Olympic Games" published in 1955 and not translated into Russian as an object of application of the Fucoldian means of analyzing the above conflict situation. The research methodology is based on a conceptual analysis of M. Foucault's theoretical legacy and the reception of the French philosopher's ideas by Russian and Western scientists. The study revealed that the novel presents four variants of bio-power: German (genetic eugenics), American (hormonal eugenics), Soviet (crippling practices) and Danish (based on the free development of natural predisposition), used to organize the birth and training of top-level runners. The disciplinary practices of runner training are most pronounced in totalitarian states. The methods of their implementation are specialized closed training spaces; strict daily routine; daily monotonous running exercises; constant differentiation of athletes by rating; exams in the form of competitions; medical experiments. The realization of the technologies of selfhood and subjectivation by runners is carried out in the forms of resistance and transgression. K. Lundberg associates his Olympic hopes in sports running not with cruel professionals who are ready to give up their health (the problem of doping) and even their lives for the sake of personal awards and increasing the prestige of their states, but with educated means of humanistic sports by amateur athletes, for whom running has existential significance as a way of holistic, bodily and spiritual self-realization in the ethically loaded sphere of freedom.

Bonding across difference in beloved community: subverting the politics of domination in school

In recent years, the whole-school use of restorative practice has become synonymous with relational approaches based on empowerment and democratisation to support the reparation of harm between victim and offender. Similarly, the preventative function of restorative practice to the development of pro-social skills within a learning community has been highlighted alongside the centrality of whole-school approaches to social and emotional learning. In one setting, the whole-school use of restorative practice was enhanced and delivered through vertically structured coaching groups that provided a secure family base and exposure to diversity for pupils throughout their time in school. Coaching groups operated as a plumb-line back to restorative practice, as the site where pro-social skills could be tacitly modelled and rehearsed. Coaching groups provided an opportunity for trusting relationships to develop, impacting on feelings of safety and providing opportunities for disclosure and safeguarding. Subsequently, collective responsibility for behaviour was supported, creating a distributed network of relational accountability and transforming how sanctions were administered, to create a non-hierarchical and relational system of discipline. This relates to transgressive forms of education and a socially orientated pedagogy, emphasising accountability alongside a whole-school ethos of care. Responsibility for behaviour is reframed from a singular to a collective pursuit, where relational responsibility eschews the alienating effect of individual notions of blame. Ultimately, this transformation subverted the classroom’s politics of domination, allowing perceptions of learning and conflict to become entirely reframed.

Атеология Жоржа Батая и негативная суверенность

The article presents a brief essay on the analysis of three key concepts in the philosophy of Georges Bataille – heterology as the logic of exclusion, (a-)theology as an atheistic understanding of the death of God and the concept of ‘negative’ or ‘sacrificial’ Sovereignty. It seems that the key to understanding the various and heterogeneous philosophical, literary-poetic, cultural-anthropological and socio-economic concepts of the French thinker is the prism of the heterological logic of exclusion, which opposes the internalization of the dominant ontological discourse. The heterology or ‘logic of exclusion’ used by Georges Bataille, is not so much a negative version of the traditional logic of ‘inclusion’, but is a logic of alternative extremes. It is precisely by striving to overcome the dominant metaphysical universalism of the general order of being (embodied, according to Bataille, in the concept of ‘being’ / ‘die Existenz’ in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger). In an effort to overcome the dominant metaphysical universalism of the general order of being, Bataille turns to various kinds of ‘denials’ and extremes – the left sacred or the sanctity of ‘foulness’, the metaphorical of the disgusting, erotic and violent forms of transgression, the cultivation of the experience of inner abandonment and ultimate despair, and, also, to his own concept of ‘sacrifice’, serving as a guide to the world of sovereign domination. Thus, developing his concept of metaphysical ‘sovereignty’, Bataille turns not only to the existential, but also to the political sphere, largely contrasting his ‘metaphysics of sacrifice’ with the concept of ‘metaphysical domination’ of the German political and legal theorist Carl Schmitt. The nihilistic energy drawn from Friedrich Nietzsche and the ‘metaphysical negation’ taken from Hegel’s dialectic through the interpretation of Alexander Kozhev is used by Bataille for the purposes of his own ‘heterological’ logic of exclusion, desubjectivization and dissolution. However, negation for Bataille is not a target for itself, but a methodological tool on the way to the ‘Other’ excluded from any ontosemantic order.

A note on the Hamiltonian structure of transgression forms

By incorporating two gauge connections, transgression forms provide a generalization of Chern-Simons actions that are genuinely gauge-invariant on bounded manifolds. In this work, we show that, when defined on a manifold with a boundary, the Hamiltonian formulation of a transgression field theory can be consistently carried out without the need to implement regularizing boundary terms at the level of first-class constraints. By considering boundary variations of the relevant functionals in the Poisson brackets, the surface integral in the very definition of a transgression action can be translated into boundary contributions in the generators of gauge transformations and diffeomorphisms. This prescription systematically leads to the corresponding surface charges of the theory, reducing to the general expression for conserved charges in (higher-dimensional) Chern-Simons theories when one of the gauge connections in the transgression form is set to zero.

‘Punch up, punch down o! All I know is there is punch’: Jokes about Africa(ns) in cross-cultural contexts

Jokes concurrently produce humour and offence owing to differences in cultural considerations of funniness and taboo. With growing audience diversity and online dissemination of live events, stand-up comics are exposed to increased scrutiny for irreverent anecdotes. Yet, ‘punching up’ has become an acceptable form of benign transgression. This is more so in cross-cultural contexts where differences heighten offence, because jokes do not just make us laugh but also create discomfort, especially when the joke-teller is different from us; whether it is ‘up’ or ‘down’, a punch is still a punch. Using the stand-up acts of four African diaspora comedians – Andi Osho, Dave Davis, Urzila Carlson and Trevor Noah – this essay interrogates cross-cultural joke presentation mechanics, themes and performer–audience relations to determine how and why these jokesters variously utilize punch-up jokes. Queries guiding the study include, what performance specificities do humourists enact to mitigate offence while dealing with sensitive/volatile subjects and a more diverse, political correctness-conscious audience? What is/are the relationship(s) between identity, cultural representations and jokes? In answering these questions, the emphasis is on discussing how the selected comedians craftily erect pre-determined sets of values that establish the context(s) within which the offensiveness of their ‘punch(es)’ is/are mitigated.

Fossils: Lithography’s Porous Time and Eugène Delacroix’s Faust Marginalia

Abstract The new printing technique of lithography, which flourished in the early nineteenth century, has been examined for its connections to Romantic ideals of artistic subjectivity, to the liberal press, and to a boom in visual media. This article centers lithography’s unique materiality to investigate the significance of its new technique—its use of limestone—that establishes compelling connections to natural history and new conceptions of time. Eugène Delacroix’s (1798–1863) unruly marginalia, which populate the borders of the first printer’s proofs of his 1828 lithographic illustrations of Johann von Goethe’s (1749–1832) Faust, serve as a case study. Drawn on and printed from lithographic limestone, the marginalia can be interpreted as fossils. This article examines how lithography facilitated new conceptions of history, time, and memory that provided grounds for a Romantic artist like Delacroix to blur the boundaries between the human and the earthly, the artificial and the natural, the ephemeral and the historic, to find within the liminal the production and reproduction of transgressive forms that persisted throughout his artistic oeuvre.

Селекция желтого люпина на хозяйственно ценные признаки

An important stage in the creation of varieties with economically valuable traits is the selection of parental forms that have a general and specific combination ability, adapted to the cultivation area. The crosses carried out in 2020 with the involvement of parental forms of local selection showed that in the F1 hybrid nursery, out of 29 combinations of crossing in plant height, 9 (3-20 2a, 8-20 2c, 15-20 2c, 16-2 2c, etc. ) belonged to the group of complete dominance (1–9 times). By the number of pods on the main stem, the dominance ratio over the best parent was 1.4–15 times, and the total number of pods per plant was 1.2–11.3 times due to good lateral branching with fruiting pods. In the second generation F2, the effect of the total positive action of polymeric genes was not manifested in all combinations. In terms of height, transgression was preserved in hybrids 16-20 2c, 17-20 4c, 22-20 2c, 24-20 2c at the level of 12.5–23.6% with a frequency of occurrence of 6.6–17.7%. Without dominance in F1, the effect of transgression in F2 in height was manifested in 7 combinations with a high frequency from 11.4 to 24.3%. Transgressive forms according to the number of beans on the main raceme were obtained in 6 combinations (12.5–37.5%) with the occurrence of such plants at the level of 2.7–10.5%. By the number of beans in total on the plant, 4 combinations were identified both in dominance (F1) and in the second generation (F2): 16-20 2c, 17-20 2c, 22-20 2c, 25-20 2c with a degree of positive transgression of 48.6 %, 41.1, 19.2 and 17.6%, respectively. The selected new hybrid material, together with the parental forms, is being tested in the third generation nursery.

Detailed study of geology of the lower parts of Pliocene in Kurovdagh area by use of 3D seismic survey

The article is devoted to the study of the geological structure of the lower parts of the Productive Series of the Lower Pliocene of the Kurovdagh field.
 It consists of an introduction, problem statement, research questions, research methodology, results, conclusion and list of references. The introduction provides basic information about the field under study, its geographical location, the history of geological and geophysical studies, the lithology of the section, the structure of the Kyurovdag fold and the oil and gas potential of the field.
 Oil and gas presence inthefield is related to the Absheron stage of Pleistocene, Akchagyl stage and Productive Series (horizons PS01—PS23) of Neogene. Despite the long-term production from the field, the lower parts of the Productive Series and underlying sediments have not been recovered and sufficiently studied by deep drilling due to the complicated surface and deepseismo-geological environment. It has been recommended to carry out a 3D seismic survey due to a high level of lateral one-fold reflections on seismic records.
 The major goals of the 3D seismic survey were studyingthe Kurovdagh field's geologic setting, obtaining characteristics previously unknown to geoscientists, and providing detailed research on velocity section to derive prognostic time-depth dependence.
 It was noted that thePetroalliance Services Company Limited geophysical company has performed a field seismic survey on request «The Caspian Energy Group» company. Processing of the acquired data used the FOCUS 5.4 software package manufactured by Paradigm Geophysical.
 For repeated interpretation of 3D seismic survey data, the 3D CDP data acquired from the field were used. The kinematic analysis by use of the 3 D cubes revealed the difference by the time shift, frequency spectrum, and amplitude range. The 3 D cubes were brought to a single formby time, phase, and amplitude. The further kinematic interpretation displayed the good quality of the data acquired from Kurovdagh area. The study applied PANGEYA® software for a multi-attribute geological and geophysical data analysis and the standard interpretation.
 For volumetric modeling of the productive layers of the Kurovdagh oil field, we used the PETREL.10.2 software package. The study targets included complex, lithologically, and tectonically sealed deposits of Productive Series PS01—PS09 and Akchagyl stage (AKCH). Productive layers are attributed to Neogene's Pliocene stage within the Caspian basin's limits.
 It is represented by a thick series of continental, coastal, and marine sediments (sand, clay, coarsely fragmented depositions) of 1600 m thickness and is unconformity laying over the Pontian stage and covered by the Akchagyl layers in a transgressive form. The Akchagyl stage is one of the stages of the Upper Pliocene which is made of clay, limestone, marl, sandstone, sand, and conglomerates.
 It became clear that the Kurovdagh field is characterized by a block type structure across the geological section. Block sizes are almost unchanged, evidencing conformance of structural stages and heritance of tectonic movements. Mud volcano and diapiric folding and their sizes are the major distinguishing features of the area.

Loyalty as permission to forgive: sport, political, and religious identification as predictors of transgression diminishment

A national survey of 314 Americans was employed to determine whether core forms of group identification (sport, political, and religious) predict one's likelihood to forgive a leader within that group for an intentional/preventable transgression. Three forms of transgressions (assault and battery, sex with a minor, stealing money) were presented as possible scenarios for leaders of sport, political, and religious groups. Sports leaders were more likely to be forgiven overall, with each of the three scenarios shifting levels of forgiveness; sex with a minor was more likely to be forgiven for sports figures, while stealing money was less likely to be forgiven for religious leaders. Unaffiliated individuals were less likely to forgive transgressions, with no differences between identified groups.

Transgressive variation in productivity traits in F2 naked oat hybrids

One of the most effective methods for increasing yield and resistance to abiotic and biotic factors in the environment is genetic selection and improvement of varieties. Solving these tasks is possible using positive transgressions, which are of great practical importance at this stage of selection. The aim of the research was to determine the coefficient of heritability in the broad sense (H2 ) and the degree and frequency of transgressions for productivity traits in second-generation hybrids of naked oat, created by crossing based on the eco-geographical principle and selection of economically valuable biotypes for further breeding work. During 2021, research was conducted on 15 intervarietal hybrids. F2 and parental components were analysed for traits such as plant height, spike length, number of spikelets per spike, number of grains per spikelet, and grain weight per spikelet. Field research methods (phenological observations), laboratory methods (structural analysis of the material under study), and mathematical-statistical methods (objective evaluation of the experimental data obtained) were used. A prominent level of the coefficient was observed for the trait “grain weight per spikelet”, ranging from 0.66 to 0.88 in hybrid populations OM 11-3007/Abel, OM 2803/Abel, Percy Can/Inermis, Percy Can/Abel. The analysis of the second-generation F2 intervarietal hybrids of naked oat allowed the identification of transgressions for all the studied traits. The highest number of positive transgressions was found for the following productivity traits: spike length (Tf 31.82 – 59.09%, Td 7.53 – 15.49%); number of spikelets per spike (Tf 27.30 – 54.50%, Td 8.85 – 26.49%); number of grains per spikelet (Tf 45.50 – 77.27%, Td 16.63 – 27.62%); and grain weight per spikelet (Tf 63.64 – 81.80%, Td 18.12 – 25.36%). The selection-genetic analysis of studying the nature of heritability, frequency, and degree of transgressive variation in spikelet productivity traits of F2 naked oat hybrids allowed the identification of a considerable number of transgressive forms, in which productivity elements vary widely, indicating successful selection work in creating promising high-yielding breeding material

Transmisión y reactivación del legado de Víctor Jara y la Unidad Popular en un festival político en Gales

In this article, I analyze a Welsh festival inspired by Chilean artist Víctor Jara and the government of Popular Unity (1970–1973). Using the theory of cultural performance, and based on interviews with participants and observations of some activities carried out in the festival, I argue that the festival is a space that simultaneously acts both to suspend and to create political normativity. On the one hand, the politics of the festival proposes a transgression of the political normativity and hegemony of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom and the West. On the other hand, the festival reinforces a political identity inspired by progressive, anti-neoliberal movements and governments in Latin America. These processes of subversion and reinforcement are mutually interconnected since the reinforcement of the political normativity of social progressist governments and movements in Latin America is constituted as a form of transgression of the neoliberal, conservative political agenda that is currently hegemonic in the contemporary British government and in some Latin American countries.

Inheritance and transgressive variability of the number of grains per ear in F1 – F2 soft spring wheat

The research was conducted in the experimental field of Bila Tserkva NAU with reciprocal F1 – F2 hybrids obtained from crossing modern soft spring wheat varieties of different genealogical origin: Elehiia Myronivska, Simkoda Myronivska, Struna Myronivska, Kollektyvna 3, Heroinya, Leguan, Azhurnaia. The standard variety was Elehiia Myronivska. The research program included the study of the nature of inheritance in F1 of the number of grains in the main spike and the establishment of the degree and frequency of transgressions in F2 in order to identify valuable breeding material for this trait. According to the trait "number of grains per ear", we identified hybrid combinations with high performance: Struna Myronivska/Simkoda Myronivska (52.7 pcs.) and Struna Myronivska/Elehiia Myronivska (51.8 pcs.). It was found that the inheritance of the number of grains in the ear in the studied hybrids was of the type of positive superdominance, the degree of dominance in direct crosses was in the range from +1, 9 in the hybrid combination Struna Myronivska/Heroinya to +87.0 in Struna Myronivska/Leguan, and in reciprocal crosses it ranged from +3.4 in Simkoda Myronivska/Struna Myronivska to +62.3 in Leguan/Struna Myronivska. The smallest range of variability in the number of grains in the ear is characterized by the hybrid combination Struna Myronovska/Azhurnaia (15 pcs.) with a variance index of 27.1. Indicators of coefficients of variation characterize F1 as an active formative process on the basis of the trait "number of grains in the ear". In F2 transgressive forms were identified in the combinations of crosses Heroinya/Struna Myronivska, Struna Myronivska/Elehiia Mironovska and Kollektyvna 3/Struna Myronivska, the degree of transgression of which was 51.4, 45.6 and 39.4 % at a frequency of 68.1, 38.6 and 14.4 %, respectively. It has been proved that the results of transgressive variability can increase the diversity of the soft spring wheat gene pool and provide valuable selection material. Key words: spring wheat, number of grains of the main ear, inheritance, variability, transgressions, adaptability, productivity.

Gender Transgression, Motherhood and Desire: Circumventing the Western Queer Ideology - A Post-colonial Literary Reading of Devdutt Pattanaik’s The Pregnant King

The term both gender and biological sex play a significant role in determining human behaviour. The foundation for presenting the underlying power structures that have aggressively preserved the gender binary was laid by a significant shift in theoretical viewpoint. Similarly, postmodern feminist and queer theorists' lenses questioned gender as a social construction rather than a natural manifestation of biological sex. Gender nonconformity transgresses the traditionally constructed gender binary by giving traditional masculinity the primary status and enabling the power and privilege related to gender enactment. The definition of gender transgression, however, varies significantly across cultures and historical Periods. The perpetuation of the gender binary and the hierarchal power system is deeply rooted in Western cultures. These power structures are embedded in reified social norms and governmental policy. This paper focuses on identifying forms of gender transgression and its ideological impingement. Combining insights from queer and post-colonial scholarship, it emphasizes the critical importance of a two-pronged theoretical approach. Following the recent research in redefining queer discourses in the limelight of post-colonial theory and narratives, this paper argues that revisiting mythological queer fiction contests the Western prejudice in queer paradigms. Queer narratives from the South Asian sub-continent signify the importance of race, class, religion, diaspora, ethnic, and linguistic formations concerning issues surrounding the representation of non-binary gender and sexualities. Through an intense reading of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Mythological text, The Pregnant King, this study circumvents the Western model of queer identities, tries to reposition the transformative non-Euro-American context, and gives queer its legal status as a pluralistic critical formation.

The Politics of Speculative Collectivities in the Work of Friedrich Schelling

ABSTRACT In Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy of nature, the attempt to think the unconditioned absolute of nature performs unconditioning, thereby transforming the present into a field of experimentation. Schelling’s nature-philosophy produces a series of interventions into cultural fields of consistency, drawing on material operations to reconceptualize forms of collective organization. In Schelling’s First Outline, beings have a specific signature: to be is to resist. In the Deities of Samothrace, philosophy performs a “magic singing” that gathers initiates together by continually exorcising—and preserving—the unruly obstinacy of pre-socialized drives. This conception of philosophy coheres with a gesture from his earlier lectures on the philosophy of art in which music forms the basis of inorganic communities, implicitly cultivating collective forms called upon to navigate the dangers of overly cohesive (harmonic) and overly transgressive (rhythmic) forms of life, while directing an unconditioning power to the conditions of the present.

Déviance et patriotisme : les malversations des banques soviétiques à l’international et les contours flous des normes financières. L’effondrement de la banque soviétique à Zurich, 1982-1986

This article investigates patterns, practices, and actors of corporate (mal-)practices of rogue banking in Soviet international banking and how this experience may have influenced post-Soviet market behavior. A micro-level study of rogue banking at the Soviet bank in Zurich in the mid-1980s shows that Soviet and Swiss authorities reacted technocratically to the phenomenon. The Soviet international bankers’ perception of the superiority of Western governance led them to frame some forms of transgression as acceptable in the name of the Soviet state’s economic interest. The article refines the narrative of Soviet and post-Soviet informal practices as grounded in the Soviet planned economy by showing that the Soviet capitalist experience also had a role to play. The article concludes that the way in which corporate and institutional stakeholders treat risk-taking and transgressions has characteristics that transcend systemic differences. The investigation is shaped by a corpus of mostly primary archival sources and interviews.

ПУШКИН: ЭТИКА И ИДЕАЛ В РЕЛЯТИВИЗИРУЮЩЕМ КОНТЕКСТЕ

The article considers the specifics of the functioning of relativizing and auctorial elements in some texts of Alexander Pushkin on the example of the poem “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” and the tragedy “A Feast in Time of Plague”. It is shown that relativistic tendencies in those works coexist with auctorial tendencies, as if “without noticing” each other. It avoids both the dictate of auctoriality and the ethical indifference characteristic of consistently relativistic aesthetic models. We see parts of a single meta-relativistic composition that deliberately contradicts the seemingly incompatible. Thus, a sympathetic description of the Circassians and an enthusiastic description of their military exploits in “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” neighbors an equally enthusiastic glorification of the punitive actions of the Russian army in the Caucasus. Particular attention in this article is paid to transgressive forms of representation of everyday life in the tragedy “A Feast in Time of Plague”. At the forefront of such a context is not Walsingham’s explicit dispute with the priest but the hidden representation of the ideal in Mary’s song, in which the heroine, Jenny, opposes both the relativizing actant of the vulgar feast and the normatively abstract moralizing of the priest by the very possibility of her existence. Jenny calls to nothing and nowhere, but the very presence of her tragic image in the partially relativizing actant of the play introduces a very significant metarelativist counterbalance and meaning to what is depicted.

Characteristics of Progenies Derived from Bidirectional Avena sativa L. and Avena fatua L. Crosses

Crossing genetically distant forms is widely used in breeding programs and allows the introduction of beneficial features from the wild into cultivated species. In this study, agronomic traits of two F2 segregating populations derived from crosses in both directions between A. sativa cv. Sam and A. fatua ‘51532’, as well as their parental forms, were phenotyped and statistically compared. Almost all mean values of the analysed features in the populations ranged between the values of the two parental forms. In both F2 populations, high variability of the traits was observed. The plant height was strongly correlated with the length of the first inernode below the panicle in all populations except parental form ‘51532’. An intermediate correlation between the plant height and the panicle length could be observed only for ‘Sam’ and ‘Sam’ × ‘51532’. The segregation of non-shattering to shattering phenotypes of the progeny confirmed a single gene inheritance of the trait. Additionally, in both combinations, transgressive forms in terms of some phenotypic traits were observed. The direction of crosses had no impact on the values of characterised parameters. During the interspecific crosses, new breeding lines and cultivars are obtained, enriched with specific qualitative and quantitative properties. The genetic distinctness between crossed species often prevents the formation of desired hybrids but also enables obtaining superior genotypes with traits exceeding the parental forms. Even though efficient crossbreeding with A. fatua is demanding, looking for new germplasm in wild ancestors is crucial for expanding the Avena genetic pool and developing long-term strategies beneficial to modern oat breeding.

Maternidades bajo sospecha: violencia y representaciones sobre abandono, infanticidio y aborto en la frontera, 1890-1935

Based on the analysis of judicial files, this work explores the representations linked to the idea of ​​motherhood, understood as a historical and cultural construction, placed under legal, moral and social suspicion, against the perpetration of certain forms of transgression, violence and criminality. Female, within the framework of a society with border, multicultural and ethnic characteristics, late incorporation into the national state and its institutions, namely, the department of Temuco between 1890 and 1935

Street art/art in the street – semiotics, politics, economy

ABSTRACT The last decades have seen the ideological transformations of graffiti and street art once constructed as criminal acts and associated with urban decay to being acceptable and profitable forms of commercial art. The spaces and places where these art forms are found have long transcended streets to art galleries and corporate advertising billboards and campaigns making them “the most visible forms of global urban culture and urban transgression” (Ferrell 2016, xxx; Bofkin 2014). This special issue on street art/art in the street explores street art's proliferation and complexity in different contexts as it relates to the political economy and neoliberal capitalism raising questions of social class, urban growth, cultural production, and consumerism. The themes investigated include notions of legality and illegality, regimes of visibility and invisibility, semiotic situated acts and art, ephemerality, permanence and mediatization, the political economy of place as well as the changing symbolic and economic value of street art tapping into issues of subcultural status and social class identities. This collection of papers draws on a range of theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches providing readers with interdisciplinary insights into the complex and changing nature of street art to account (and better understand) this social semiotic phenomena.