A Few Steps Toward the Anthropology of the Iconoclastic Gesture

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1996

In Science in Context, Vol., 10, n°1 pp. 63-83 [republication in a Chinese art Journal Art Map (http://www.artmap.com.cn) ]

Abstract

The paper -in part related to (67)- is an effort to get away from the conditioned reflex of the critical mode of thinking which highly values iconoclasm, anti-fetishim and anti-idolatry. Instead of another attempt at deconstruction it tries to reinstall the lost operation of « factishes” (that is fact+fetish). It is argued that by resinstating officially those factishes, the theory of action that is linked to construction —and deconctruction- can be replaced by a much more adjusted theory of mediations which provide the critical distance but not the anti-fetishism that usually goes with it.

Translations

Repris très transformé en livre / heavily reedited in book form
in book (VII), for translations see « Books »