The Nervous System

Michael Taussig

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Routledge
06 May 2016

Anthropology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

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.

By: Michael Taussig
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138139831
ISBN 10: 1138139831
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 06 May 2016
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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;

Michael Taussig is Professor at Columbia University.