Aisthesis &amp; An-Aesthesia

Verrips, Jojada

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“…Several authors have called attention to a broad range of visual engagements that far exceed the gaze that dominates ocularcentric models (Belting 2005; Freedberg 1989; Howes 2003; Morgan 2005; 2007; Marks 2000; Pentcheva 2006; Sobchack 2004; Verrips 2002; 2006). Approaches that appreciate the multi-sensory impact of pictures in constituting a sense of being in the world are particularly relevant with regard to religious pictures, and attitudes toward pictures from a religious perspective.…”

Section: Beyond the Gaze: Pictures As Animated Thingsmentioning

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“There Is a Spirit in that Image”: Mass-Produced Jesus Pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal Animation in Ghana

Meyer

2009

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In southern Ghana, where I have been conducting research on the genesis of popular Christianity for almost twenty years, Christian imagery is everywhere. The Ghanaian state re-adopted a democratic constitution in 1992, and this was followed by a liberalization and commercialization of mass media, which in turn facilitated the spread of Pentecostalism in the public sphere (see De Witte 2008; Gifford 2004; Meyer 2004a). Within this process, Christian pictures have become ubiquitous. Pentecostal-charismatic churches assert their public presence and power via television, radio, posters, and stickers, and there has also emerged a new public culture rife with Christian imagery. This visual and aural expansion of Christianity and its particular aesthetic severely challenges what is being called African Traditional religion, and clashes with initiatives developed by the state and intellectuals to secure a national heritage.

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Section: Beyond the Gaze: Pictures As Animated Thingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“There Is a Spirit in that Image”: Mass-Produced Jesus Pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal Animation in Ghana

Meyer

2009

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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“…8 This has given rise to vibrant, still ongoing debates addressing the pros and cons of technological determinism. 9 Another way to put the visual in perspective, impossible to pursue here, is to pay more attention to other senses than the eye, in particular the ear and questions of hearing (see also Hirschkind, 2001) and touch (see also Marks, 2000;Verrips, 2006). 10 For example, De Vries (2001); Plate (2003); see also Keane (1997), who makes a similar argument in relation to religious language, which faces the dilemma that transcendence supposedly lies outside of discourse, yet requires being reduced to a discursive form so as to be expressed.…”

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Religious revelation, secrecy and the limits of visual representation

Meyer

2006

Anthropological Theory

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This article seeks to contribute to a more adequate understanding of the adoption of modern audiovisual mass media by contemporary religious groups. It does so by examining Pentecostal-charismatic churches as well as the Christian mass culture instigated by its popularity, and so-called traditional religion in Ghana, which develop markedly different attitudes towards audiovisual mass media and assume different positions in the public sphere. Taking into account the complicated entanglement of traditional religion and Pentecostalism, approaching both religions from a perspective of mediation which regards media as intrinsic to religion, and seeking to avoid the pitfall of overestimating the power of modern mass media to determine the world, this article seeks to move beyond an unproductive recurrence to oppositions such as tradition and modernity, or religion and technology. It is argued that instead of taking as a point of departure more or less set ideas about the nexus of vision and modernity, the adoption of new mass media by religious groups needs to be analyzed by a detailed ethnographic investigation of how these new media transform existing practices of religious mediation. Special emphasis is placed on the tension between the possibilities of gaining public presence through new media, and the difficulty in authorizing these media, and the experiences they induce, as authentic.

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“…Uma segunda dimensão, relativamente oposta à estética, oferece outra profícua maneira de pensar as infraestruturas, partindo de um conceito mais antigo de Aristóteles, aisthesis (Buck-Morss 1992;Meyer 2009;Verrips 2006). Aisthesis não se refere à apreciação mental de uma obra de arte, mas à reação do corpo à realidade vivida: "É uma forma de cognição, alcançada por meio do paladar, do tato, da escuta, da visão e do olfato" argumenta Buck-Morss (1992:6).…”

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Políticas e Poéticas da Infraestrutura

Larkin

2021

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Infraestruturas são formas materiais que permitem trocas por meio do espaço. Elas são redes físicas através das quais mercadorias, ideias, lixo, energia, pessoas e capitais financeiros circulam. Neste artigo, mapeio a literatura antropológica que busca teorizar a infraestrutura a partir da biopolítica, dos estudos de ciência e tecnologia e das teorias de tecnopolítica. Também examino outros aspectos das infraestruturas que proporcionam diferentes significados e estruturas políticas por meio das dimensões estética, sensorial, do desejo e da promessa.The politics and poetics of infrastructureAbstract: Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological literature that seeks to theorize infrastructure by drawing on biopolitics, science and technology studies, and theories of technopolitics. I also examine other dimensions of infrastructures that release different meanings and structure politics in various ways: through the aesthetic and the sensorial, desire and promise.Keywords: Infrastructure, Technopolitics, Biopolitics, Aesthetics, Technology.

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Aisthesis & An-Aesthesia

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“There Is a Spirit in that Image”: Mass-Produced Jesus Pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal Animation in Ghana

“There Is a Spirit in that Image”: Mass-Produced Jesus Pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal Animation in Ghana

Religious revelation, secrecy and the limits of visual representation

Políticas e Poéticas da Infraestrutura

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