The iconoclastic machine in the digital age
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Certain episodes which occurred in the middle of 2020 served to confirm the prevalence of symbolic violence of popular character. Although affinity with actions with other historic episodes shows a recurrent pattern, almost manually, what is certain is that they coincide in time with the dynamics of the characteristic images of the digital era, tacitly iconoclastic, and with actual practices which are also it in a highlighted way. In view of this global phenomenon, the article serves itself of the operative concept of the iconoclastic machine in order to reunite different cases and discover in them a common substratum which allows the establishment of the unusual concomitances within the prevailing iconacracy. Of special importance in the development of the proposal are the artistic uses which renew the spirit of the vanguardist praxis and which are served by the fundamental variables of the iconoclastic mechanics in order to critically sound out the attributes of contemporary images.
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