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La monographie Image et pouvoir. Entretiens avec les penseurs français pré- sente sept entretiens avec les personnalités françaises reconnues en phi- losophie, sociologie et anthropologie. Menée par le désir de comprendre les différents... more
V súčasnej filozofii, sociológii a antropológii sa obrazy stali častým predmetom úvah o možnosti zachovania slobody mys- lenia, jeho pohybu na hraniciach racionality. Jedným z predsta- viteľov tejto línie myslenia je i Marie-José... more
The paper covers "Les Desastres de la Guerra" of Francisco Goya and shows, how these engravings not just represent, but expose the experience of death.
The paper covers the question of iconoclasm in a historical (Byzanz, Reformation, Savonarola etc.) and in a systematic sense. Therefore it differs between the destruction of pictures and the destruction of art and it discusses the... more
This paper follows the multilayered narrative structure of Kamāl al-Riyāḥī’s Novel Al-Ghurillā and traces its intertextual references that go from global pop culture through to religion, include TV commercials and movie screens. The paper... more
هذا المقال مدخل لفلسفة فيتجنشتين الثانية والتي بسط الفيلسوف النمساوي مفاهيمها المركزية في كتابه العمدة البحوث الفلسفية والذي نشر بعد وفاته، كما يمكن اعتباره اقتفاءا للخطوات الأولى للحقل المعرفي الذي سيعرف بالتداوليات.
This book introduces two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the Universal Turing Machine. The former is utilized to articulate a discussion on photography's frequently acclaimed 'ontological... more
CONTENTS: __ 1. A hierarchical tree __ 2. Tree-reading basic evidences a) Wittgenstein's suggestions b) Fluency of the resulting text c) Coherence and completeness d) Logical pages and reading units e) Several telling... more
...The subject - we want to say - does not here drop out of the experience but is so much involved in it that the experience cannot be described. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar [1931–2], I:VII:§107. Wittgenstein gave... more
Der Begriff des Rahmens hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten in unterschiedlichsten Kontexten Konjunkturen erlebt: in der Anthropologie und der Soziologie als kontextsensibler Handlungsrahmen, in den Theaterwissenschaften als... more
Immer häufiger finden verschiedenste Formen von Infografiken Einzug in Comics aller Couleur. Mit Rückgriff auf bildwissenschaftliche Grundbegriffe wird anhand zweier aktueller Beispiele nach einem Minimalkriterium dafür gefragt, was den... more
A dolgozat a kései Rembrandt egy főművének új szemléletű értelmezésére tesz kísérletet - Saját pozícióm kifejtéséhez két fontos értelmezési kísérlet kritikai ismertetésén át vezet az út, amelyek jól reprezentálják a... more
Seit etwa der Jahrtausendwende wird Japan ein Aufstieg zur „Figuren-Supermacht“ nachgesagt. Dadurch werden kyaras zunehmend als kulturphilosophisches Problem betrachtet, das die japanische Bevölkerung in allen Gesellschaftsbereichen... more
This book is a collection of eighty-seven written statements. These thoughts continue from where "Tom Palin: Artist Statements 1992-2013" (Workshop Press: Leeds) left off. In them the author considers questions pertinent to his practice.... more
O conceito de “fisiognómico” é, ainda hoje, marcado por uma grande ambiguidade semântica, ao ponto de, muitas vezes, ser excluído da reflexão sobre o estético. Uma das razões desta exclusão reside, sobretudo, na sua genealogia ideológica,... more
An ontological definition of photography based on the technical processes used for producing the images falls short as there are images which are produced by photographic means such as cameras and emulsions which would not be recognized... more
Com este artigo são trazidas à reflexão duas temáticas que, desde longa data, animam o pensamento filosófico ocidental, a saber: a representação imagética do corpo e as suas potencialidades simbólicas discursivas. Tendo em vista a... more
Beniamino Fortis ist Philosoph und Postdoktorand am Selma Stern Zentrum. Er hat in Venedig und Florenz studiert und wurde an der Universität Florenz mit einer Arbeit über "Das Ikonische und Anikonische als Paradigmen der zeitgenössischen... more
humanidades comunica tirant humanidades comunica La disrupción que-todavía hoy-supone la crisis fi nanciera de 2008 ha atravesado irremediablemente múltiples expresiones culturales contemporáneas dando lugar a determinados gestos que,... more
The aim of the following article is to compare Plato and Wittgenstein’s doctrines of language as a picture, focusing on the Cratylus and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Despite the fact that the Cratylus deals with the correctness of... more
Com este texto pretendemos colocar em evidência o processo de individuação estética da expressividade, que decorre da afirmação da autonomia sistémica da obra de arte. O objeto que nos serve de reflexão são as formas imagéticas... more
Este artículo examina críticamente la interpretación del Laocoonte como una obra cuyo principal aporte consiste en una teoría de los signos. Dos elementos del texto de Gotthold Ephraim Lessing son destacados: la especificidad de la... more
Não há um objecto, único e último, a que possamos chamar “imagem”. A formação de cada médium obedece a processos de configuração – tanto materiais quanto cognitivos –, cuja essência abarca as relações que são geradas com os demais. A... more
In "Actualité de Diderot. Pour une nouvelle esthétique", ed. by M. Mazzocut-Mis, R. Messori, Editions Mimésis, 2016, pp. 41-60.
RESUMO. Que conceito de 'imagem' emerge da evolução semântica dos principais princípios estéticos que se inscreveram no pensamento ocidental? Tal é a pergunta-chave que anima o corpo analítico deste texto. Para sustentar, teoricamente,... more
In: Kunst als symbolische Form. Ernst Cassirers ästhetische Theorie, Hrsg. von Birgit Recki, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2015.
This introduction takes as its central armature Karen Barad’s agential realism to provide a framework for understanding the essays brought together in this Special Issue under the rubric of pictures of conflict. The intention is to move... more
DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE: https://punctum.gr/volume-2-issue-1-2016/ Volume 2, Issue 1 (2016) Art as Concept and Institution: Semiotics of an Evolving Category Special issue editor: Lia Yoka The articles as well as the whole issue, can be... more