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Mimesis and Alterity

A Particular History of the Senses

By: Michael T. Taussig

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Mimesis and Alterity

A Particular History of the Senses

By: Michael T. Taussig

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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324

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Psychology Press

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0415906873

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9780415906876

The Magic of the State

By: Michael T. Taussig

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The Magic of the State

By: Michael T. Taussig

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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216

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Psychology Press

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0415917905

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9780415917902

Defacement

Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative

By: Michael T. Taussig

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Defacement

Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative

By: Michael T. Taussig

Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface.

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334

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Stanford University Press

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0804732000

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9780804732000

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

By: Michael T. Taussig

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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

By: Michael T. Taussig

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the commodities they produce. A new chapter for this anniversary edition features a discussion of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille that extends Taussig's ideas about the devil-pact metaphor.

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315

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807898414

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9780807898413

The Nervous System

By: Michael T. Taussig

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The Nervous System

By: Michael T. Taussig

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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220

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Psychology Press

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0415904455

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9780415904452

Aernout Mik

By: Aernout Mik,Laurence Kardish,Michael T. Taussig

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Aernout Mik

By: Aernout Mik,Laurence Kardish,Michael T. Taussig

Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Laurence Kardish, Kelly Sidley, Michael T. Taussig.

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The Museum of Modern Art

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0870707426

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9780870707421

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

By: Michael T. Taussig

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The Magic of the State

By: Michael T. Taussig

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By: Michael T. Taussig

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415917905

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The Nervous System

By: Michael Taussig

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The Nervous System

By: Michael Taussig

In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. The Nervous System will appeal to writers, scholars, artists, film makers, and readers interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics.

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Routledge

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0415904455

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I Swear I Saw This

Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

By: Michael T. Taussig

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I Swear I Saw This

Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

By: Michael T. Taussig

I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006-as well as its caption, "I swear I saw this"-Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery. Notebooks mix the raw material of observation with reverie, juxtaposed, in Taussig's case, with drawings, watercolors, and newspaper cuttings, which blend the inner and outer worlds in a fashion reminiscent of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's surreal cut-up technique. Focusing on the small details and observations that are lost when writers convert their notes into finished pieces, Taussig calls for new ways of seeing and using the notebook as form. Memory emerges as a central motif in "I Swear I Saw This" as he explores his penchant to inscribe new recollections in the margins or directly over the original entries days or weeks after an event. This palimpsest of afterthoughts leads to ruminations on Freud's analysis of dreams, Proust's thoughts on the involuntary workings of memory, and Benjamin's theories of history-fieldwork, Taussig writes, provokes childhood memories with startling ease. "I Swear I Saw This" exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, here combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy. He writes, "drawing is thus a depicting, a hauling, an unraveling, and being impelled toward something or somebody." Readers will exult in joining Taussig once again as he follows the threads of a tangled skein of inspired associations.

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Milliken

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6613297666

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9786613297662

Aernout Mik

By: Aernout Mik,Laurence Kardish,Michael T. Taussig

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Aernout Mik

By: Aernout Mik,Laurence Kardish,Michael T. Taussig

Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Laurence Kardish, Kelly Sidley, Michael T. Taussig.

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Book's by Michael T. Taussig

Mimesis and Alterity

Mimesis and Alterity

The Magic of the State

The Magic of the State

Defacement

Defacement

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

The Nervous System

The Nervous System

Aernout Mik

Aernout Mik

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

The Magic of the State

The Magic of the State

The Nervous System

The Nervous System

I Swear I Saw This

I Swear I Saw This

Aernout Mik

Aernout Mik

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