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anonymous_ideology
photography, video stills/installation
2003 – 2004

Myth lends itself to history in two ways: by its form, which is only relatively motivated; by its concept, the nature of which is historical. One can therefore imagine a diachronic study of myths, whether one submits them to a retrospection (which means founding an historical mythology) or whether one follows some of yesterday’s myths down to their present forms (which means founding prospective history).

If I keep here to a synchronic sketch of contemporary myths, it is for an objective reason: our society is the privileged field of mythical significations. In truth ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’, ….. It is profoundly unconscious …. Ideology is indeed a system of representations, but in the majority of cases these representations have nothing to do with ‘consciousness’: they are usually images and occasionally concepts, but it is above all as structures that they impose on the vast majority of men, not via their ‘consciousness’.

They are perceived-accepted-suffered cultural objects and they act functionally on men via a process that escapes them.



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