Michael Taussig

The Nervous System (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136606397
• Artikelnr.: 38268660

Autorenporträt

Michael Taussig is Professor at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Why the Nervous System?
Chapter 2 Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege
Chapter 3 Violence And Resistance In The Americas: The Legacy Of Conquest
Chapter 4 An Australian Hero
Chapter 5 Cane Toads: an Unnatural History
Chapter 6 Reification and The Consciousness of The Patient
Chapter 7 Maleficium :State Fetishism
Chapter 8 Tactility and Distraction
Chapter 9 Homesickness & Dada