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- Title
WRITING (NOT IN BETWEEN) REALITY.
- Authors
Head, Scott; Neis Araujo, Felipe
- Abstract
A central conceit to Michael Taussig's writing, as approached herein, lies in its removal of the preposition conventionally deployed to describe ethnography, history, and other modes of "non-fictional" writing: writing about reality. What could such writing be like if it is no longer written "about" that which it purports to describe or narrate but rubbing right up against its still-unresolved materiality? Beginning at "Unpacking My Library" -- a title Taussig takes from Walter Benjamin -- and detouring through Fred Moten's Black Afro-Diasporic figuration of the "not-in-between," we investigate how such approaches to the "language of things" relate to writing ethnography. Exploring how Taussig's writing works, in part by approaching certain artistic/cultural/cosmopolitical practices as "mimetic allies," we similarly touch upon the African-Diasporic traditions with which our own writings engage. Throughout, we flesh out how history -- and Black history -- figure as interruptive forces both in and beyond Taussig's writing.
- Subjects
BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; BLACK history; ETHNOLOGY; PREPOSITIONS; FIGURATIVE art
- Publication
Sociologia & Antropologia, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2236-7527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/2238-38752023v1334