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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Images of Pain : Self-Injurers’ Reflections on Photos of Self-Injury
- 2011
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Ingår i: Pain. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press. - 9781848880801 ; , s. 131-141
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Photographs of self-injury are a powerful tool for communicating pain (in a broadsense of the word, including ‘inner’, non-physical pain caused by inner turmoil or anxiety). They appear quite frequently on the internet and are often perceived as dangerously seductive and triggering, to the extent that websites can be forced to withdraw this kind of material. Publishing photos of self-injury can also lead toaccusations of attention- seeking, or competing to be the worst self-injurer. Anoften repeated feature of an inauthentic self-injurer is that s/he publishes photos of self-inflicted wounds and scars. As part of an ongoing study on visual representations of self-injury on the internet, members of a self-injury communitywere asked to reflect on the production, publication and consumption of photos of self-injury. Over fifty informants, both active and former self-injurers, participated in the survey. Prejudices about exposure to self-injury photos leading to anexacerbation of self-injury were not supported by the study. Positive effects, like alleviation, or being warned against the consequences of self-injury, were frequent,and the soothing effect of the photos was often emphasised. The answers from the survey create a complex picture, showing how self-injury photographs are part of a community culture; used to control the self-injurious behaviour, and as acommunicative device. The self-injury culture is reliant on expressions of empathy and solidarity. Pain is the basis of its communication, and, with the help of photographs, pain can be remembered, imagined and transferred. The self-injurycommunity revolves around a notion of shared experience of pain; photographs of self-injury are one of the resources for sharing and for building its communal ground.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Learning from Transmediation
- 2016
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Ingår i: Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders. - : Linnaeus University. ; , s. 121-121
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The point of departure of this paper is the notion of affect, an intensive and chaotic experience that need to be terminated. For the individual it is necessary to transform the intense experience to feelings or emotions, both social communicable qualities. Transformations are made possible through semiotic systems, like language. It is tempting to understand transformation as transmediation but, as affect is “something” chaotic and thus, by definition impossible to frame in a semiotic system, no mediation is at hand in the first place (which is required for a transmediation). When individuals are mediating affective experiences through transformations they gain knowledge, as mediation according Säljö is a process of learning. These mediations can either connect to already established articulations or be renegotiations of these. Focus in this paper will be on the transformations of the mediated affects. Mediations of mental distress (understood here as affect) will be used as a case in point, mediations that can take shape of bodily configurations, for instance self-injury. Representations of these mediations transmediated as, for instance photos, drawings or poems are often published on internet by those experiencing mental distress. Arguably they can trough these transmediations and publications obtain additional knowledge of their experience. The purpose with this paper is to discuss how different modes, media and mediums, with their particular capacities, can make various kind of knowledge possible for individuals experiencing mental distress. It will suggest a theoretical framework for the articulatory process from affect to transmediation, passing the mediating stage.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Modes of pain : reflections on the self-injury experience
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Ingår i: Painful conversations. - Oxford : Inter-Disciplinary Press. - 9781848881426 ; , s. 147-165
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Answers from a group of fifty self-injurers active in an internet community to a questionnaire addressing issues about photographs of self-injury raised questions about how pain is communicated and takes part in constituting individuals. A situated knowledge reflecting a first-hand experience of self-injury experience is acknowledged in this study. The results from the questionnaire did not confirm assumptions that being exposed to or producing photographs of self-injury is harmful. Self-injury photos were inscribed in discourses that emphasised both negative and positive aspects, with both triggering and soothing outcomes. Articulations in control and sharing discourses were frequent. With the help of discourse and multimodality theories, self-injury photos were defined as one of several modes to articulate pain: aim that was not be understood as a physical pain, but as a life-threatening chaos that needed to be controlled by language. Communities for self-injurers provide many opportunities for self-injurers to express and communicate pain in different genres and modes. Self-injurers’ activities are seen in the light of a philosophy that recognises pain as a constitutional force for subjects. The discourse theoretical approach shows that the skin can be seen as the arena where ‘inner‘ and ‘outer‘ experiences are interpreted through language and also constitute the subject. Self-injury experiences are concluded to be expressions of an individual who resists destructive forces of pain that threaten his/her existence by marking the skin and drawing contours on the place where the individual is established, in an attempt to become.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Photographs of self-injury : Production and reception in a group of self-injurers
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 15:4, s. 421-436
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Photographs of self-injury (SI) on the Internet, according to the literature and the wider media, spread and encourage self-destructive behaviour, although very little is known about these effects. A group of self-injurers was questioned about the reasons for producing and looking at photos of SI, and were asked about their reaction to exposure of them. The informants confirmed that the effects were alleviating rather than the opposite, and the production of the images was often related to notions about memory and proof. To publish them was apprehended as a way of sharing experiences with others and to give and/or receive help. Photographs of self-injuries were described as one resource of a SI community culture. Informants often emphasised that the outcome of watching these photos varies due to individual and situational differences. The results of the study are inconsistent with unfounded presumptions about photographs of SI, which are replaced with a nuanced and contradictory picture.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Red Rebel Brigade : Känslor och estetik i klimatmobiliseringen
- 2024
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Ingår i: Ekologisk konstvetenskap. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. - 9789189504615 - 9789189504622 ; , s. 125-154
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I kapitlet diskuteras i emotionella estetiska uttryck i samband med klimatmanifestatoner. Utgångspunkten är den artivistiska gruppen Red Rebel Brigade. Med hjälp av enhetligt estetiskt uttryck, där deltagarna uppträder med långsamma rörelser i röda dräkter och vitsminkade ansikte, vill Red Rebel Brigade skapa emotionell upplevelse av klimatkrisen. Med en bakgrund i mim använder Red Rebel Brigade en ordlös kommunikation för att försöka skapa ett större engagemang än klimatforskningens rapporter lyckats med. Genom formal- och innehållsanalys av de fotografier och texter som gruppen publicerat på sociala medier framträder ett civilisationskritiskt budskap där naturen får representera ett harmoniskt tillstånd. Red Rebel Brigade intar i sin retorik en suverän moralisk position som blandas med en våldsam retorik. Ur denna framträder bilden av en sluten sekt, som inte verkar ha någon grund i deras faktiska verksamhet. Avslutningsvis diskuteras hur en klimatengagerad konst- och bildvetenskap kan bidra till klimatmobiliseringar genom konstruktiva förslag på hur klimatkrisen kan kommuniceras.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Red Rebel Brigade’s spaces for climate action
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Submitted Abstract:Climate activism is often a reaction on how authorities and policy makers ignore thethreats from global warming and the sixth mass extinction. Changing this state is crucialfor the survival of humanity and the world, as we know it. This paper examines briefly theintermedial communication used by climate activists under the banners of Fridays for Future (FFF), Red Rebel Brigade (RRB) and Extinction Rebellion (XR). These groups havein common a need to raise awareness about the ongoing environmental crises. This includes a transmediation of the result from climate research to media products that, not onlymake sense to the audience, but also influence and inspire them to take action against theshort-sighted current politics.Through their activities FFF, RRB and XR create different spaces for actions, i.e. a mediaproduction that includes representational and epistemological challenges and considerations. Space is here used as an analytic tool to capture, not only the modalities of the mediainvolved, but also to reflect on the actions these spaces promotes. FFF, RRB and XR usedifferent actions and manifestations – from the sit-ins and demonstrations by FFF, to thechoreographed performances by RRB and XRs playful civil disobedience.This paper is guided by the concepts of semiotic resource and affordance, and by the intermedial and transmedia theories developed by Professor Lars Elleström. The web pagesof FFF, RRB and XR is the point departure for this study.
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- Sternudd, Hans T., 1955-
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Self-injury places in a semiotic perspective
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Self-injury practice involves activities that take place on the skin. In this paper I argue that this activity is not only taking place on the skin; the cutting is also creating a special place – a wounded skin. From this domain stories of emotional distress and/or disorders are communicated.Skin is often apprehended as the surface of the individual, and giving it to much attention is interpreted as expressions of superficiality or shallowness. As a point of departure this paper suggests that the wounded cut up skin of a self-injurer contradicts these notions. In this reading skin becomes the place where identity is produced as a discursive meeting between an apprehended inner self and a world posit outside. Superficiality is not something pejorative - it's all there is.On internet self-injurers create communities where members share stories, discuss experiences and show images of their wounds - different modalities that are expressing a common semiotic principle. Verbal and visual texts reveal how a place (the place of the wounded skin) is constructed with the help of different modes - based on the principle of the cut. This principle can refer to loss of control, of being a victim - but also the opposite, as an act of agents formulating aggressive response against an intolerable situation.
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