Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative

by Michael Taussig

Book Overview

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 specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. This surfacing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732000
• ISBN13: 9780804732000
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"