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Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative book by Michael Taussig ISBN: 9780804732000

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When the human body a nation’s flag money or a public statue is defaced a strange surplus of negative energy is likely to be aroused from within the de- faced thing itself. It is now in a state of desecration the closest many of us are going to get to the sacred in this modern world. Indeed this negative state can come across as more sacred than “sacred” especially since that most spec- acular defacement the death of God was announced by Nietzsche’s mad- man: “Do you not feel the breath of empty space?” he demands lantern held high in the blazing sun. I take this space to be where the defacing action is sucking in this book as sheerness of movement within an emptiness so empty anything could hap- pen in a continuous blur-like Margaras the White Cat Hunter and Killer. not similar to anything just similar.” “He can hide in snow and sunlight on white walls and clouds and rocks.” William Burroughs advises and “he moves down windy streets with blown newspapers and shreds music and silver paper in the wind. (LL)

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ISBN

9780804732000

Format

Softcover

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Book author

Michael Taussig

Condition

Used – Very Good

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