Conquering Visibility, Conferring Visibility: Visibility Seekers and Media Performance

Paradigm changes and new theoretical formulations may happen for at least two sorts of reasons. Reasons of the first type could be described as “immanent” to the world of discourse. They happen within the borders of the intellectual world. They are triggered by the emergence of new models in other fields or by the decision of electing new fields as reference points. Looking at the same situations, we see them in a new light.