The science of talismans today

The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance. In the eighteenth century, European intellectual discourse rejected the talisman on physical, moral, and aesthetic grounds. Today, it has returned and forms the object of distinctive and mutually complementary programs of study in art history, anthropology, and media studies. Its primary interest lies in its account of visual form as an intelligible cause and thereby as a mediator between distinct domains of experience

Aesthetics · Arabic · Art · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology

• IPhones as Compromised Talisman

  D Byler•Comparative Studies of South Asia…•2025

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• Stranger Magic

  Michael Warner, Marina Warner•Stranger Magic•2012

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• Art And Agency

  Alfred Gell•Art and agency•1998

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• The Universe of Things

  Steven Shaviro•The universe of things•2014

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• After Finitude

  Quentin Meillassoux•After Finitude•2008

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• What Do Pictures Want?

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•What Do Pictures Want?•2005

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• The Eye of War

  Antoine Bousquet•Eye of War•2018

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• Pour Une Histoire Comparée Oes Sociétés Européennes

  Marc Bloch•Revue de Synthèse historique•1928

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• Batinism in Al-Andalus. Maslama b. Qasim al-Qurtubi (d. 353/964), Author of the "Rutbat al-Hakim" and the "Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix)"

  Maribel Fierro•Studia Islamica•1996

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• The Chronicle of John Malalas

  Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys et al.•The Chronicle of John Malalas•1986

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• The Making of the English Working Class

  Bernard Semmel, Edward P Thompson•The American Historical Review•1964

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• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

  Thomas S Kuhn, Thomas Kühn et al.•La Structure des révolutions…•1996

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• Thinking Through Things

  Open Access•Liz Bonshek•The Australian Journal of…•2009

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• From Ġāyat al-ḥakīm to Šams al-maʿārif

  Liana Saif•Arabica•2017

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• Image against Nature

  Open Access•Finbarr Barry Flood•The Medieval History Journal•2006

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• The Serpent Column and the talismanic ecologies of Byzantine Constantinople

  Open Access•Andrew Griebeler•Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies•2020

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• The Lee Penny

  Thomas Reid•Proceedings of the Society of…•1923

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• The Lapidary of King Alfonso X the Learned

  George D Greenia, Ingrid Bahler et al.•Hispania•2000

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• Life from Within

  Tanja Klemm•Representations•2016

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• Images at Work

  Hannah Baader, Ittai Weinryb•Representations•2016

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• Symmetry, Sympathy, and Sensation

  Persis Berlekamp•Representations•2016

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• Art's visual efficacy

  Open Access•Jakub Stejskal•Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics•2017

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• Théurgie et télestique néoplatoniciennes

  Pierre Boyancé•Revue de l histoire des religions•1955

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• The Greeks and the Irrational

  Eric R Dodds•Greeks and the Irrational•1951

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• Between Belief and Transgression

  P Steven Sangren, Michel Izard et al.•Man•1983

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• Anthropology of Ontologies

  Eduardo Kohn•Annual Review of Anthropology•2015

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