Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative book by Michael Taussig : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

Format: Softcover

Author: Michael Taussig

ISBN: 9780804732000

Condition: Used - Very Good


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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)