1. VOICE/SILENCE: ChallAnging Dialectics
Visual Language and Culture
By : Kristina Yegoryan

2. Visual artifact: Photo “Close up of Man's Mouth” Photographer: AR Images

3. THE MEANING Semiotics: Signified & Signifier Denotation / Connotation
Close up of man's mouth with a zipper
Silence, Lack of Power,
Gender and power relations
Dialectics: Voice/silence
Self/other
Hierarchy, Displacements
Opposition toward domination
and power structure

4. THE DIALECTIC OF VOICE/SILENCE: the notion of power and subjectivity associated with gender expectations of those with voice versus silent ones.

5. Deconstructing the image ChallAnging Dialectics
French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, explains the binary opposition by using the word “differ/a/nce” with a silent letter “a” to denote the systematic play of differences.
According to Derrida the meaning of words is defined through appeal to additional words from which they differ, and it is that difference, which engenders binary opposition and hierarchies, and thus underpins meaning itself.

6. Rhetoric of Visual Image:
“The displacement of the order and meaning of each of these dialectics within the set, challenges their predetermined denotations and meanings ascribed to them” ( K. Yegoryan)
Rhetoric of Visual Image:
brings forth various meanings
that the object in the image
communicates through connotative
association.
Rhetorical meaning of the image:
Opposition toward domination and power structure
Self in the other

7. Female Gaze: Objectified Men Ideology: Power paradigm
WHAT DO I SEE IN THE IMAGE? Interpellation: Seeing oneself in the other
“Because its sense of self is only
ever garnered from identifying with
the images of these others” (J. Lacan).
Female Gaze: Objectified Men
Ideology: Power paradigm
Gender and Power Hierarchy
Hegemony: The domination of men and the subordination of women
Postmodernism: Skepticism, irony

8. ChallAnging Dialectics
Through displacement of dialectics the image suggests to reconsider problems that have been embedded in our social epitome for centuries.
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