Icons, Frames, and Language Games: Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods
The three essays in this volume are each built around a different icon, genre, framing, or language game: a drasha (about iconoclashes), a language game (religious speech, religious paintings), and ethnopsychiatry. While Latour distances himself from social constructivism (as a "poor man's...
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| description | The three essays in this volume are each built around a different icon, genre, framing, or language game: a drasha (about iconoclashes), a language game (religious speech, religious paintings), and ethnopsychiatry. While Latour distances himself from social constructivism (as a "poor man's creationism"), he fails to recognize the challenges of religious pluralism, asserting that religious speech is not communicable or translatable, a hermetic language game of feeling and gesture. For today's world, this is insufficient. © 2013 by the Society for the History of Technology. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1161282022-10-01T19:38:46Z Icons, Frames, and Language Games: Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods Fischer, Michael M. J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Fischer, Michael M. J. The three essays in this volume are each built around a different icon, genre, framing, or language game: a drasha (about iconoclashes), a language game (religious speech, religious paintings), and ethnopsychiatry. While Latour distances himself from social constructivism (as a "poor man's creationism"), he fails to recognize the challenges of religious pluralism, asserting that religious speech is not communicable or translatable, a hermetic language game of feeling and gesture. For today's world, this is insufficient. © 2013 by the Society for the History of Technology. All rights reserved. 2018-06-05T19:25:30Z 2018-06-05T19:25:30Z 2013-10 2018-06-04T13:15:43Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1097-3729 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116128 Fischer, Michael M. J. “Icons, Frames, and Language Games: Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods.” Technology and Culture 54, 4 (2013): 963–967 © 2013 Society for the History of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-5943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/TECH.2013.0127 Technology and Culture Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press |
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