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Iconic Power

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

Editors: Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Bartmański, Dominik; Giesen, Bernhard

DOI: 10.1057/9781137012869

ISBN: 978-1-349-34262-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 11, 2015

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Introduction: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology

Bartmański, Dominik; Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Pages: 1 –12

[With this volume, we push the study of culture into the material realm, not to make cultural sociology materialistic but to make the study of material life more cultural. We introduce the concept of iconicity, and alongside it the idea of iconic power. Objects become icons when they have not...
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Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor

Boehm, Gottfried

Pages: 15 –23

[Cultural practices related to images have always been both about craftsmanship and about the domestication of powers assigned to images. We were concerned with the mysterious effects of images way before we started to celebrate the genius and glory of artists. This is supported by ethnological...
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Iconic Power and Performance: The Role of the Critic

Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Pages: 25 –35

[Materialism is a mundane mode of understanding, one that indulges the self-evident common sense of a rationalized, de-magicalized modernity. No doubt the most sophisticated manner in which the self-consciousness of modern mundanity has been applied to materiality is the commodity theory of Karl...
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Iconspicuous Revolutions of 1989: Culture and Contingency in the Making of Political Icons

Bartmański, Dominik

Pages: 39 –65

[On the twentieth anniversary of the “fall of the Berlin Wall,” the New York Times offered a richly illustrated and prominently displayed coverage of the event. The caption under the top slideshow read: “The Fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the beginning of the end of communism in Europe.”1 It is...
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The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons: On the 1921–1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event

Kurasawa, Fuyuki

Pages: 67 –84

[In the summer of 1921, the specter of famine stalked the territory of Soviet Russia. A combination of sociopolitical and economic factors—the aftermaths of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, civil war between Red and White forces, and the Bolshevik policies of forces...
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Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11

Bowler, Wendy

Pages: 85 –99

[September 11, 2001, New York City: the day terrorism impresses a powerful sequence of pictures on television viewers worldwide. Leading the image assault are depictions of the World Trade Center’s (WTC) Twin Towers at the moment a ball of fire erupts from one of the buildings. News reports name...
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The Emergence of Iconic Depth: Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective

Binder, Werner

Pages: 101 –116

[In recent years, the concept of the “secular icon” has become more and more popular in the field of visual studies. Secular icons are widely regarded as images of extraordinary symbolic power and as carriers of collective emotions and meanings. The following contribution offers a theoretical...
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Shifting Extremisms: On the Political Iconology in Contemporary Serbia

Šuber, Daniel; Karamanić, Slobodan

Pages: 119 –138

[What the founder of “mediology” captured in this citation is generally held as true with respect to the sociopolitical context, which shall be the subject of our analysis. Serbia is not only depicted as the main culprit of the recent Balkan Wars, but also as a paradigm case of a modern society...
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The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media

Rauer, Valentin

Pages: 139 –154

[Cultural historians have identified two different modes of how societies perceive their history: a circular and a linear mode of time. In circular time, the future just repeats the past, such as in the recurrence of different climate seasons each year. Linear time implies a future that will...
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How to Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds’ Grange Wine

Woodward, Ian; Ellison, David

Pages: 155 –169

[New approaches to iconicity in cultural sociology link the aesthetic surface of an object with the depths of its cultural meanings. Linking pragmatics and haptics with symbolism and mythology, such innovations offer a way of understanding how the aesthetic surface features of an object or image...

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