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The book "The Nervous System" by Michael Taussig is a collection of essays that cover a variety of topics such as terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing, homesickness, and the role of touch in magic and modernity. Taussig's writing style is described as engaged and combines storytelling with high theory, creating a unique form of critical discourse. The book will be of interest to those interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics.
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.
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