Defacement Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative

Name: Defacement Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
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ISBN: 9780804732000

ISBN-10: 0804732000

ISBN-13: 9780804732000

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michael Taussig

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This account of sacrilege in relation to secrecy as a form of active unknowing is a study not only of taboo and transgression, but also of truth's paradoxical need for secrecy.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Prologue



Sacrilege


Sacrilege


Cement Fondue


Hegel's Death Space



Secrecy Magnifies Reality


The Law of the Base


Secrecy Magnifies Reality


Pity Those Weak in Lying


Death in Venice


Schopenhauer's Beard



In that Other Time: Isla Grande


Isla Grande


The Massacre of the Women


Instant Theater


Selk'nam Unmasking


Yamana Unmasking: Crossing the Face


"The Extraordinary Ciexaus State of Mind,"


Finding the Secret


A Joyous Thing with Maggots at the Center


The Hard Core of Culture


Repository of Cosmic Power


Breath of Empty Space


Destruction and Self-Destruction



The Face is the Evidence that Makes Evidence Possible


Infinity and Disproportion: Crossing the Face


The Abduction of Montaigne


Strike and Zoomorphic Physiognomics


The Disorganization of the "Organization of Mimesis": The Subcomandante Unmasked


Refacement: A History of Reading


Unmasking and Proliferation



The Secret of the Gift


The Secret of the Gift


Notes


Bibliography


Index