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vii. Iconoclash. beyond the image Wars in Science, Religion and Art
ICONOCLASH -BEYOND THE IMAGE WARS IN SCIENCE, RELIGION & ART

Catalog of an exhibit

edited by Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel

published by MIT PRESS

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What is Iconoclash ?

Bruno Latour :

Insert : Jagannath and his Saligram

Insert : Abraham and the Idol shop of his father Terah

Why do images trigger so much furor ?

Pema Konchok : " TIBET & THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION : DIVINE SUBSTITUTIONS "

Moshe Halberthal : " God does not live there anymore "

William Pietz : " The Sin of Saul "

Olivier Christin : " The Idol King ? "

Raymond Corbey : " Image-breaking on the Christian frontier "

Alfred Birnbaum : " Gilded Silence: The King of Kosala's Sixteen Dreams "

Pierre Centlivres " Life, Death And Eternity Of The Buddhas In Afghanistan"

Luc Boltanski: " The fĎtus in the image wars "

Mick Taussig : " Old Glory "

Gregor Jansen : " 

Insert : La fontaine Le statuaire et la statue de jupiter

Why are images so ambiguous ?

Dario Gamboni : " IMAGE TO DESTROY, INDESTRUCTIBLE IMAGE "

Lorraine Daston : " Nature paints "

Brigitte Derlon : " From New Ireland To A Museum: Opposing Views Of The Malanggan"

Peter Geimer: " Searching for something. On photographic revelations "

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond : " GalileoŐs finger "

Dominique Linhardt : " What happened? Nothing! WellÉ except a lot! "

Bruno Pinchard : " Tender BlasphemyThree states of the image, three states of love, in the Renaissance"

Jerry Brotton: " Saints Alive: The Iconography of St George "

Miguel Tamen: " Theophilia "

Insert : Andersen and the EmperorŐs Clothes

Why do Gods object to images?

Joseph Koerner: " THE ICON AS ICONOCLASH "

Pierre-Olivier Léchot : " "Idols Fall And The Gospel Arises!" The Farel memorial in Neuchâtel: history of a paradox"

Jean-François Clément: " The Empty Niche Of The Bamyan Buddha "

Jean-Michel Frodon : " The war of images, or the Bamiyan paradox "

Catherine Lucas: "The Hidden Imam"

Ramon Sarrô: " The Iconoclastic Meal: Destroying Objects And Eating Secrets Among The Baga of Guinea "

John Tresch : " Did Francis Bacon Eat Pork? A Note on the Tabernacle in New Atlantis "

Patricia De Aquino : " No Freeze-Frame on Gods "

Insert : John Paul II on the Shroud

The unbearable image

Sophie Ristelhueber : " Dévisager-Taking Images on a Mine field "

Khalil Joreige & Joanna Hadjithomas : " A State of Latency "

Margrit Rosen : " "Shooting the Dead. The Symbolic Economy Of The Photographed Corpse." "

Insert : Pierre or the Ambiguities by, Herman Melville

The unbearable sound

Denis Laborde : " "THE STRANGE CAREER OF MUSICOCLASHES" "

The unbearable movement

Borys Groys : " "ICONOCLASM AS METHOD. ICONOCLASTIC STRATEGIES IN FILM "

How can an image represent anything ?

Peter Galison : " IMAGES SCATTER INTO DATA, DATA GATHER INTO IMAGES"

Marie-José MONDZAIN : " THE HOLY SHROUD. HOW INVISIBLE HANDS WEAVE THE UNDECIDABLE"


Christian Kassung &Thomas Macho: " IMAGING PROCESSES IN 19TH CENTURY MEDICINE AND SCIENCE"


Insert : Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

Why is destruction necessary for construction ?

Peter Sloterdijk : " ANALYTICAL TERROR "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist : " " MILANO TRIENNALE 68 A CASE STUDY AND BEYOND/ARATA ISOZAKI'S ELECTRONIC LABYRINTHS, A "MA" OF IMAGES?"

Peter Geimer: "Dealing the Joker in Berlin"

Doerte Zbikowski : " 

Are there limits to iconoclasm ?

Hans Belting : " BEYOND ICONOCLASM. N.J PAIK, THE ZEN GAZE AND THE ESCAPE FROM REPRESENTATION "

Caroline Jones : " Making Abstraction "

Nathalie Heinich : " Ça ne représente rien " Vandalism And The Status Of A Work Of Art In Marseille "

Albena Yaneva : " Challenging The Visitor To Get The Image: On The Impossible Encounter Of A Pig And An Adult"

Hans Belting : "Invisible movies in SugimotoŐs Theaters".

Sabine Himmelbach: "??

Can the Gods cohabit together ?


Heather Stoddard : " PART TWO "

Bruno Pinchard : "Moses and the Suspended Iconclastic Gesture"

Z. S. Strother : " Iconoclasm by proxy "

Elizabeth Claverie : " How to Photography the Supernatural Beings ? "

Anne-Christine Taylor : "The Face of Indian Souls: a Problem of Conversion"

Andreas Mayer: " The Fetish-Scientist, or Why Would Anyone Force Anyone to Kiss the Bust of Franz Josef Gall? "

Lydia Marinelli: "FreudŐs Fading Gods"

Tobbie Nathan: "TerahŐs Lesson"

But there is no image anymore anyway!

Richard Powers : "The ArtistŐs Bedlam "

Michel Jaffrennou : " Ceci est une image/ This is not a Picture "


Bianchini: "??


Noortje Marres : " May The True Victim Of Defacement Stand Up! On Reading The Network Configurations Of Scandal On The Web. "

Norman Klein: "MEDIA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POWER NOT AS A REPRESENTATION OF POWER "

Can we go beyond the image wars ?

Simon Schaffer : " THE DEVICES OF ICONOCLASM "

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger : " Auto-Radio-Graphics "

Jorg Huber : " On the credibility of world-pictures "

Has critique ended ?

Robert Koch : " THE CRITICAL GESTURE IN PHILOSOPHY "

Insert : Extracts fromKleist and the Marquise of O.

What has happened to modern art ?

Adam Lowe : " TO SEE THE WORLD IN A SQUARE OF BLACK "

Insert : extract from chapter 28 of OrhanPamuk and My name is Red

Peter Weibel : " IS MODERN ART ICONOCLAST ? UP TO AND BEYOND THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION "

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vii. Iconoclash

Introductory chapter