Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown

Name: Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
ISBN: 9780226698670

by Michael Taussig

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For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it.

Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might exert along with such change.

Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown is not solely a reflection on our condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with the impulses that have fed our relentless ambition for dominance over nature.

Taussig seeks to move us away from the manipulation of nature and reorient us to different metaphors and sources of inspiration to develop a new ethical stance toward the world.

His ultimate goal is to undo his readers&; sense of control and engender what he calls &;mastery of non-mastery.

&; This unique book developed out of Taussig&;s work with peasant agriculture and his artistic practice, which brings performance art together with aspects of ritual.

Through immersive meditations on Walter Benjamin, D.

Lawrence, Emerson, Bataille, and Proust, Taussig grapples with the possibility of collapse and with the responsibility we bear for it.

First published: 2020
Publishers: University of Chicago Press
Subjects: Human ecology

About Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig (born 1940) earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney, received his PhD. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University and European Graduate School. Although he has published on medical anthropology, he is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin....

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