{"id":1175,"date":"2012-05-15T00:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=1175"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:43:43","slug":"leon-marvell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-2012-2\/speakers-2012\/leon-marvell\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Marvell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Headless and Unborn: Interfering with Bataille and Masson\u2019s Image of the <em>Acephale<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This presentation proposes that George Bataille and Andre Masson\u2019s hieratic figure of the Acephale functions as an autocritique of the production of images. If one remembers Fredric Jameson\u2019s despair at the \u201cpornography\u201d of images which surround us, then the Acephale envisions a cure for the clap. After exploring and establishing the functioning of the figure of the Acephale, this presentation then proposes that there is a hitherto unexplored likely connexion between George Bataille and Andre Masson\u2019s hieratic figure and a specific ritual text found in the collection of Greco&#8211;\u2010Egyptian magical texts known as the <em>Papyri<\/em> <em>Graecae<\/em> <em>Magicae.<\/em> Thus the talisman&#8211;\u2010machinic function of the figure will be established, drawing on connexions between numismatics and the emblematic and talismanic book tradition. This disinterring of prophylactic functions not only reveals the clockwork of the Acephale&#8211;\u2010machine, but also instigates the generation of a chain of figures from within the guts of the Acephale: forest, skull, labyrinth, and an absurd <em>deificatio<\/em>. These figures combined provide the programme for the Acephale\u2019s desolation of images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headless and Unborn: Interfering with Bataille and Masson\u2019s Image of the Acephale \u00a0 This presentation proposes that George Bataille and Andre Masson\u2019s hieratic figure of the Acephale functions as an autocritique of the production of images. If one remembers Fredric Jameson\u2019s despair at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":1081,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1175\/revisions\/1261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}