In 2010 the Danish artist Søren Thilo Funder was in Cairo to produce the art film Disastrous Dialogue. As Funder set to work he had a foreboding about how politically charged the piece might be. When he cut the film, however, events had exceeded his most fateful premonitions, reshaping the interpretative context completely. The changes in Egyptian society, thus, altered the possible meaning–agency relations of the finished work. Through a close reading and a conceptually guided criticism of the text–context relationships of Disastrous Dialogue we explore interrelations of meaning and agency through the lens of the concept of plasticity. This leads us to propose a plastic understanding of agency as both formed by and formative of meaningful relationships—and able to creatively destruct and, thereby, transform configurations of meaning.

Research Article| January 01 2005 Rhetoricians Identified: A Call to Interdisciplinary Action and How It Resonated in the Field of Rhetoric Christine Isager; Christine Isager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sine Nørholm Just Sine Nørholm Just Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philosophy & Rhetoric (2005) 38 (3): 248–258. https://doi.org/10.2307/40238219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christine Isager, Sine Nørholm Just; Rhetoricians Identified: A Call to Interdisciplinary Action and How It Resonated in the Field of Rhetoric. Philosophy & Rhetoric 1 January 2005; 38 (3): 248–258. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/40238219 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressPhilosophy & Rhetoric Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2005 The Pennsylvania State University2005The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.