Icons, Frames, and Language Games: Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

• Autores: Michael M. J. Fischer
• Localización: Technology and Culture, ISSN-e 1097-3729, Vol. 54, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 963-967
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.