Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
christopher braddock
foreword
a n n h a m i lt o n s
malediction
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In the interests of focus
I am commenting on an
aspect of the whole
performative installation
malediction.
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Thanks to Mark Jackson i n t r o d u c t i o n 2
to whom I am indebted
for many of the critical
I want to pay attention to the objects of
re-workings of this essay.
See my forthcoming book performance art those activated within
Performing Contagious
performances and then acting as relics or
Bodies: Ritual Exchange
traces, or those produced to activate viewer
in Contemporary Art to
be published by Palgrave participation in a performative way via
Macmillan in 2012 where
theories of ritual exchange in magic. A core
an extended version of
concept of contagion (as it stems from a legacy
this paper will appear.
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force-fields
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Authorship for the
original version of this
work published in LAnne
Sociologique is attributed
to Marcel Mauss and Henri
Hubert.
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See my forthcoming book
Performing Contagious
Bodies: Ritual Exchange in
Contemporary Art to be
published by Palgrave
Macmillan in 2012 where
an extended version of this
paper will appear.
For a discussion of
these linguistic
operations in relation to
the failure of
performance, see
Braddock (2010).
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The embodied nature of
Stanley J. Tambiahs
semantics of persuasion is
important to my
discussion. Tambiah also
entertains enacting
performative acts without
the use of words (1973:
2212) as well as across a
range of object mediums
(1973: 223n1).
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See Jesper Sorensen who
points to a lack of
consideration for ritual
processes among the
Victorian rationalists: In
the attempt to explain
magic as actions that are
rational by reference to
underlying mental
procedures and beliefs,
they disregard the very
special status of these
actions that they are
exactly ritual actions
and thereby almost explain
the phenomena away
(2007: 3).
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At the heart of Tambiahs
analysis of sympathetic
magical practices, while he
does not employ these
terms, lies metaphor as the
axis of symptom while
metonymy is the axis of
desire. In this respect
Jacques Lacans correlation
of psychoanalysis and
linguistics and its
relationship to Jacobsons
theories, as well as Freuds
condensation (metaphor or
symptom) and
displacement (metonymy
or desire) (Wilden 1980:
47), sit in the background
of this essay.
henry balfours
a n a l o g o - t e l e p at h y
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