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- › Videodokumentation des Vortrags (in Englisch) / Video documentation of the lecture (in English) [RealMedia]
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Abstract
This paper explores the migration of three categories of uncanny "image-objects," totems, fetishes, and idols, in relation to the stages of imperialism and colonialism (conquest, mercantile exchange, administrative dominance, and globalized capital "flows"). The aim is to show how these categories are rooted in imperial "objectivities" constructed around "secondary beliefs"-- i.e., beliefs about the beliefs of other people. My aim is also to show how these categories of objecthood "come home" and take on a second life in the aesthetic ideologies of empire, especially the category of the aesthetic object as such.
Artists / Authors
- W.J.T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago › Biography
Date(s)
- November 7, 2003
Organizer
The House of World Cultures
Contact
info@hkw.de
Location
The House of World Cultures, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Submission
, Jan 26, 2004
Category
- Lecture
Keywords
- Topics:
- globalisation
Additions to Keyword List
- Fetish |
- Imperialismus |
- Idol |
- Totem |
- Kolonialismus