astronomic unity
Lascaux paintings of the bulls and horses
horse statues since antiquity
antiquity centaur, horses, bull - Minotaurus,
Middle Ages: tympanums of a portals (France) monsters; personifications of the Christ: lamb, lioness, pelican, phoenics; Holy Spirit - dove
painters of animals in the Netherlands 17th century; horses and dogs in England, George Stubbs; (Marino Marini)
Every society chooses the animal which corresponds best to its nature and to the environment it lives in, and which is connected to that society only on a symbolic level or on a symbolic and material level for food and hunting. Today animals are connected to human society on a symbolic level; hunting has been replaced by industrial production, which the contemporary human being no longer links with the rituals. Killing has moved from the mystical into the social context.
Totem
Animals:
life (here and now, then and elswhere, before and elsewhere ...) life energy
demiurge (god does not create but save from decline); makes us see, raises attention
zoo; quarantine: diseases
animals disease carriers: ticks, rats, foxes, bacteria, monkeys, (mad) cows
healthy life, clean life; back to nature
Connection: pollution with garbage as pollution with images
hyperproduction of images within the limits of the hyperproduction
of commodities
the image is a commodity (the image has become a commodity)
["Images have become munitions." (Paul Virilio)]
commodity
image
market: sale, maintenance and rise of commodity prices
the animal as an image as well as a commodity
The image is subjected to the same rules as a commodity.
animal, life
living things
dead living things, complete reproduction of an animal, realism: robot, replicants
creation of a new life: god
Criteria of humanity
A free hand means technical activity ... tolls.
Monsters
Vegetables and animals
Fish
Claude Levi-Strauss, Le Totemisme Aujourd'hui, Presses Universitaires de France
Andre Leroi Gourhan, Le Geste et la Parole, Premiere partie: Techique et langage, 1964, Paris