An Explication of Visual Enactment in Advanced Style: Fashioning a Challenge to the Ideology of Old Age

In this essay, we use the outfits of Advanced Style and their challenge to the ideology of old age to theorize the rhetorical strategy of visual enactment. We propose that visual enactment involves four key elements—visibility, individuality, syncreticity, and futurity. Visibility makes an issue salient, individuality breaks apart an established category, syncreticity integrates disparate elements to create a new ideology, and futurity involves...