In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna Indians, and theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, Taussig shows that the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism, and more specifically, to the colonial trade's construction of "savages." With analysis that is vigorous, unorthodox, and often breathtaking, Taussig's cross-cultural discussion of mimesis deepens our understanding of the relationship between ethnography, racism and society.

Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses

Politics & Social Sciences

Michael Taussig

Social Sciences

Routledge

The Magic of the State

Early Childhood Qualitative Research (Changing Images of Early Childhood)

The Nervous System

Preface, The Editors; Hope in Rojava, David Levi Strauss; Syria's Kurdish Revolution: The Anarchist Element and the Challenge of Solidarity, Bill Weinberg; Why Is the World Ignoring the Revolutionary Kurds in Syria?, David Graeber; No. This Is a Genuine Revolution, David Graeber &amp; Pinar Ögünç; Abdullah Öcalan, Peter Lamborn Wilson; Öcalan's Angels, Newsha Tavakolian; No Miracles at Work, Havin Güneser; A Revolution of Life, Saleh Muslim &amp; Jonas Staal; Woman Fighters of the YPJ, Murat Bay; The World's First Army of Women, Evren Kocabiçak; Two Excerpts from 'Liberating Life: Women's Revolution', Abdullah Öcalan; New Wars and Autonomous Self-Defense in Kurdistan, Nazan Üstündag; Dispatches From Rojava, El Errante / Paul Z. Simons; Rojava: To Dare Imagining, Dilar Dirik; The Mastery of Non-Mastery, Michael Taussig; Acknowledgments &amp; Bios; Sources &amp; Resources; The Charter of the Rojava Cantons

To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution

History

Peter Lamborn Wilson

David Levi Strauss

DAVID GRAEBER

Murat Bay

Dilar Dirik

Havin Güneser

Evren Kocabiçak

Saleh Muslim

Abdullah Öcalan

Pinar Ögünç

Newsha Tavakolian

Nazan Üstündag

Bill Weinberg

Military

Autonomedia

This book has the ambition to stage a multi-phased resistance to the power that images exert in the contemporary world, and, at the same time, to offer something like the keys to the transformation of that power. Peter Lamborn Wilson

The Critique of the Image... Is the Defense of the Imagination

Diane Di Prima

Robert Kelly

Christopher Bamford

Carolee Schneeman

Gerrit Lansing

Charles Stein

Ivan, Illich

In hyper-normal hybrids the boundaries between man and machine have dissolved. Inside their nervous systems lies a strange but fascinating theme: the digital unconscious. Which forces act through algorithmic processes? What secrets can be found in the shadowy realm of technology, welded to human nervous systems? How can the complexity of these relationships be described and what forms of access can cultural approaches offer?

Digital Uconscious: Nervous Systems and Uncanny Predictions

Konrad Becker

Critical Art Ensemble

Erik Davis

Lydia H. Liu

Felix Stalder

Franco Bifo Berardi

Ewen Chardonnet

S.M.Amadae

Cecelia Calheiros

Eva Illiouz

Katja Mayer

El Iblis Shah

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