ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests the term social pathologies, just as the emotional mobilisation characteristic of modern politics, should be connected with liminal conditions: situations in which the previously taken-for-granted order of things is dissolved. It explains dissolving power of images can be literally modelled by the qualities of the zero, an argument that was first formulated in Leonardo da Vinci's philosophy of the nulla. This idea helps to give a new perspective on the manner in which images stimulate undermine harmonious living, creating acute problems of public health. The chapter introduces Political Anthropology in terms of its methodological perspective by the journal International Political Anthropology. During Communism all kinds of sacrificial acts were committed towards the most different objects. The idea of Communism is intimately tied to industrialisation and efficiency, but the effect of mechanisation is to make it impossible for anyone to be oneself. The idea of Communism is intimately tied to the idea of machine, to industrialisation and efficiency.
