Description
Prompted by the pervasive operation of names, which on the one hand act as empty signifiers and on the other ‘fix’ subjects within their cultural and social environments, this issue brings together a variety of contributions that explore the performativity, agency and problematics of names. On Namesaddresses issues around centring and decentring subjectivities through naming and asks what one can (un)do with names by means of art and performance. Ranging across recent political debates, astronomy, authorship, scholarship, procedures of renaming and artistic pseudonyms, the articles collected in this issue urge us to consider how names ‘capture’ us and at the same time generate different modes of agency and possibilities for political intervention.
Editorial : What Names (Un)do
Konstantina Georgelou, Janez Janša
‘I am the Donald.’ : On the sound symbolism and symbolic power of powerful names
Marco Deseriis
Proper Name by Performing the Self : A dramaturgical analysis
Ana Vujanović
Refresh
Kristin Sue Lucas
Naming the Cosmos Death : On performance, astronomy and Katie Paterson’s The Dying Star Letters
Felipe Cervera
Calling the Signifier by its Name : Citational rescue and the politics of ecstatic reception
Swen Steinhäuser
Spell or Spill It Out : Dismembering a name
Nazlihan Eda Ercin
To Name or Else
Janez Janša
Complicating Authorship : Contemporary artists’ names
Nicola McCartney
Juridical Regulation of a Name Change
Tadej Kovacic
The Unnaming of ‘Aliass’
Karin Bolender
How to Do Things with Names and Signatures : On the politics of performative (re)naming
Aldo Milohnić
The Function of Names in US Presidential Debates : Some recent powerplays
F. L. Blumberg
Naach, Launda Naach or Bidesiya : Politics of (re)naming
Jainendra Kumar Dost
On Stealing Viewpoints
Tony Perucci
Naming and Calling : Missing words
Lynette Hunter
Missing Names
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
Art and the Politics of Human Rights after 1945 (review)
Arnaud Kurze
