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

Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative

Michael Taussig

328 pages missing pub info (editions)

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Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In s...

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