Response to Emily

Response to Emily Shakespearean theater: text was key. 

I don’t agree; I think it was a way of recapitulating the Catholic iconicity: What happened in church. 

Macbeth: I am chained to a stake. 

Disenchantment of the world     For the early modern world, Christian platonism: what we see points toward (and is bound up with) the real. But unlike Plato, representation has truth. 

    Book of emblems; Dante

Melville excellent for unpacking ideological iconicity. 

Does the real have some non-ideological claim to reality than the Christian realm?

Fear/fascination with the fetishistic: Is this not just a reflection of colonialism?

Connection between fetishistic and embodiment.