NATURALLY STRIATED MUSCLE: EXAMINING THE IDEOGRAPHIC CRYSTALLIZATION OF

<p>In U.S. America and much of the Western world, natural is a venerated symbolic placeholder for any number of assumed virtues and ideals. Present conflicts have brought forward questions about what natural (which I argue functions as an ideograph) should mean in contexts that seem to call for a formal, enforceable definition. In this study, I use the vocabulary of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and the context of bodybuilding to work towards a theory of how ambiguous ideographs become "striated" or “crystallized.” Within this discussion I present instances where natural has been employed as a vehicle to cause harm, and I offer an advisement to rhetorical scholars on how we might approach striated ideographs in the future.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Briggs, Dustin L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gray, Jonathan
• Pensoneau-Conway, Sandra

• bodybuilding
• crystallize
• ideograph
• natural
• smooth
• striated

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1161

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2165