FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN INTERMEDIAL STUDIES Introduction

The feminist project has radicalised text/image relationships in myriad ways, disrupting the contours of discipline and medium. The multifaceted recyclings of a transdisciplinary methodology remind us that although in the past decades text/image studies has become an established academic research field in the first decades of the twenty-first century, its subversive potential to challenge cultural hegemonies has not diminished. On the contrary, intermedial fusions remain loaded with political and ethical issues that are in search of sites of resistance for marginalised, othered social subjects and meanings. The introduction explains how this special journal issue emerges from and is addressed to the politically significant network of feminist researchers - artists, theoreticians, and activists - we believe we share ties with on account of putting the study of intermediality in the service of constructing a radically new understanding of our world in all its horror and hope, in the words of Griselda Pollock.