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SUMMARY:Philippe Descola - The Making of Images: An Anthropological Perspe
 ctive - Professor Philippe Descola (Professor of Anthropology\, Collège d
 e France and Visiting Fellow\, King’s College\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20150128T170000Z
DTEND:20150128T180000Z
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CONTACT:Julien Domercq
DESCRIPTION:Do join us for a talk by Philippe Descola\, one of the most re
 nowned anthropologists. Descola studied under Claude Lévi-Strauss and wil
 l be reflecting on a groundbreaking exhibition he curated at the Musée du
  Quai Branly in Paris which sought to investigate how very diverse culture
 s represent the similarities and differences they see in their surrounding
 s - how and why we make images.\n\n\n*The Making of Images: An Anthropolog
 ical Perspective*\n\nIconic depiction can be used to trigger and organize 
 memory\, to convey information and to express emotions. Beyond these unive
 rsal functions\, however\, it also has the power of rendering present and 
 active in images specific sets of ontological properties\, i.e. culturally
  contrasted systems of qualities ascribed to things in the world. If reduc
 ed to their basic structural properties as products of different inferenti
 al processes\, ontologies are limited in number: they can be predicated on
  the continuity of interiorities and the discontinuity of physicalities (a
 nimism)\, on the discontinuity of interiority and the continuity of physic
 alities (naturalism)\, on the continuity of interiorities and physicalitie
 s (totemism) or on their discontinuity (analogism). These modes of identif
 ication are expressed in the making of images in that they qualify and mak
 e visible the types of entities that are perceptually salient in a given o
 ntological context\, the nature of their agency\, the relations that these
  entities entertain and the properties which they convey.\n\n\nThe talk is
  organised by the History of Art Graduate Seminar Series and the Departmen
 ts of Archaeology and Architecture.\n\n!http://s27.postimg.org/ux8m0l5gz/T
 he_Making_of_Images.jpg!
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 3
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