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Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
Michael Taussig
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| #632767 in Books | 1999-09-01 | 1999-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.16 | File type: PDF | 325 pages||18 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| An idiosyncratic exploration of an essential topic|By Henri Edward Dongieux|The anthropologist Michael Taussig provides a detailed and thoughful narrative on the cultural phenomena of public secrecy and Hegel's "labor of the negative," drawing inspiration from an impressive range of sources both new and old. This is a book on the theory and practice of unmasking, as a cult||“This volume [which asks what happens when something precious is despoiled] is vintage Taussig. . . . It has the hallmarks of his other works―originality, unusual associations among diverse sources, provocative and definitely contestable interpretation
Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. 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. This surfacing is made all the more sub...
You easily download any file type for your device.Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative | Michael Taussig. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
