Ucieleśnienie dysensusu. Bezdomni blogerzy i bezdomne blogerki w USA
Embodiment of Dissensus: American Homeless Bloggers

Summary/Abstract: The article – written from the perspective of the interpretive turn in cultural studies with the application of theoretical concepts created by Jacques Ranciere, Julia Kristeva, Erving Goffman and Nancy Fraser and the results of psychological research carried out by Susann T. Fiske and Lasana T. Harris – presents American homeless bloggers as dissensual figures. Since in the American culture the homeless persons occupy thea position of social abject, they are denied rights and competences granted to average citizens, including speakingthe right to speak in the public sphere. Street peopleThese homeless authors, who share their stories on blogs, prove their humanity, inscribe themselves into the order of perceptible and (re)gain their subjectivity. As dissensual figures, homeless bloggers connect contradictory cultural information — in Goffman’s terms — symbols of stigma with “normal” competency and they weave new social sensory fabric anticipating aesthetic community (Ranciere), in which they will surprise nobody. The article is an attempt at reflection uponexploring the dissensus created by the homeless bloggers. The research method — analysis and interpretation of the aforementioned theories by their contextualization —, their juxtaposition with each other and with the bloggers’ texts – stems from the interpretive turn in cultural studies,. The goal of the article is theproducing a description of homeless bloggers’ dissensus, and its followingin particular exploring such aspects as: visibility, vulnerability, type of stigma, counterdiscourse, individual and collective activism as well as redistribution and recognition.

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