Dialogism: Texts and Directions

Dialogism is “the characteristic epistemological mode of a world dominated by heteroglossia. Everything means, is understood, as a part of a greater whole - there is a constant interaction between meanings, all of which have the potential of conditioning others” (Bakhtin 2004 426). Applied more broadly, dialogism is a development out of dialectics, the process by which meaning and knowledge are created through change and the alignment of binary, oppositional forces that results in defined points in history and cycles. Dialogism is networked, multiple, fractal, complex and 'chaos' driven. It builds depths and surfaces, not cycles.

• Bakhtin Reader

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  A reader edtied by Pam Morris.

• The Problem of Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  Bakhtin moves away from the novel and concerns himself with the problems of method and the nature of culture

• Dialogue in intercultural communities

  Claudio Baraldi (editor)

  a good text on dialogue in intercultural settings.

• Ethics, Politics and the Potential of Dialogism

  Craig Brandist

  Historical Materialism, Volume 5, Number 1, 1999

• Two Routes "to Concreteness" in the Work of the Bakhtin Circle

  Craig Brandist

  Article on the Bakhtin Circle and phenomenology

• The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master's Absence

  Craig Brandist, David Shepherd, Galin Tihanov (eds)

  Collection of articles about the work of the various members of what is now known as 'the Bakhtin Circle', other than Bakhtin himself. The volume also includes translations of original works by members of the Circle.

• The dialogics of critique: M.M.Bakhtin and the theory of ideology

  Michael E. Gardiner

  The dialogics of critique: M.M.Bakhtin and the theory of ideology

• Sage Masters of Modern Thought: Bakhtin Vol. 1

  Michael E. Gardiner

  First in a four volume set that explores the thought and legacy of Mikhail Bakthin. This is extensive and very well done.

• Sage Masters of Modern Thought: Bakhtin Vol. 2

  Michael E. Gardiner

  Second in a four volume set that explores the thought and legacy of Mikhail Bakthin. This is extensive and very well done.

• Sage Masters of Modern Thought: Bakhtin Vol. 3

  Michael E. Gardiner

  Third in a four volume set that explores the thought and legacy of Mikhail Bakthin. This is extensive and very well done.

• Sage Masters of Modern Thought: Bakhtin Vol. 4

  Michael E. Gardiner

  Fourth in a four volume set that explores the thought and legacy of Mikhail Bakthin. This is extensive and very well done.

• Bakhtin and Cultural Theory

  Ken Hirschkop (ed.) and David Shepherd (ed.)

  Bakhtin, critical theory and literature

• A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin

  Karen Ann Hohne and Helen Wussow

• DIALOGISM, Bakhtin And His World

  Michael Holquist

  A book on Bakhtin

• Dialogues on Bakhtin: Interdisciplinary Readings

  Mika Lahteenmaki and Hannele Dufva

  A collection of papers discussing the ideas of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle from an interdisciplinary perspective.

• Dialectic and Dialogue

  Dmitri Nikulin

  This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two.

• Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World

  Graham Pechey

  (book) Graham Pechey - Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World

Dialogic Reality II

In a dialectic process describing the interaction and resolution between multiple paradigms or ideologies, one putative solution establishes primacy over the others. The goal of a dialectic process is to merge point and counterpoint (thesis and antithesis) into a compromise or other state of agreement via conflict and tension (synthesis). "Synthesis that evolves from the opposition between thesis and antithesis." (Eisenstein, "The Dramaturgy of Film Form" 23). Examples of dialectic process can be found in Plato's Republic.

In a dialogic process, various approaches coexist and are comparatively existential and relativistic in their interaction. Here, each ideology can hold more salience in particular circumstances. Changes can be made within these ideologies if a strategy does not have the desired effect. An example of the dialogic process can be found in Nozick's, Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

These two distinctions are observed in studies of personal identity, national identity and group identity.

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) introduced the concept of dialectic process to explain the progression of ideas.

M. M. Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and Literary Critic has been credited with introducing the Dialogical process in Philosophy.

Dialogic Reality (Indeterminacy)

Remix: Movements relative to discourse. These not so solid arrangements hold brief in the stream. We remix along the crystalline fissures which run with representation and simulation; signs, icons, symbols, images, references and the Real. The Author constructs the space and the Reader enters in to it. We take it on. Such compositions (compos (Lt.), having mastery of) are all around us; overlapping, flowing into each other, banking up into the welts of culture, running away into the evaporating sands of time. By the powers of discourse the genres are gathered. Accompanying this we now have the tools to manage intricate taxonomies, systems of global scale, often in the form of dialogic networks. This has been one hue of the broad and more profound recognitions of complexity since, let’s say, 1927. These treasures we break open and adorn ourselves with.