Journal article

Iconomy and Innervation

Towards a Genealogy of the Indebted Gaze

Pages 20 to 28

Cite this article


  • Szendy, P.
(2014). Iconomy and Innervation Towards a Genealogy of the Indebted Gaze. Multitudes, No 57(2), 20-28. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.057.0020.

  • Szendy, Peter.
« Iconomy and Innervation : Towards a Genealogy of the Indebted Gaze ». Multitudes, 2014/2 No 57, 2014. p.20-28. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2014-2-page-20?lang=en.

  • SZENDY, Peter,
2014. Iconomy and Innervation Towards a Genealogy of the Indebted Gaze. Multitudes, 2014/2 No 57, p.20-28. DOI : 10.3917/mult.057.0020. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2014-2-page-20?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.057.0020


English

“Iconomy” is a mix between the Greek eikôn (image, picture) and the oikonomia which referred to the fair management of exchanges. Here, however, the iconomy will be characterized by what must be described, after Marx, as an “aesthetic supermarket”, animated by what Walter Benjamin has led us to consider as an “innerved” sensibility.

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