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

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Fischer, Michael M. J.
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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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2013-10
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116128
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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Technology and Culture
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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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
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1097-3729
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