Day: June 12, 2014

Maleficent state and bogus independence

BLOOD RUSH By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com In his book “The Nervous System” (1992), Anthropologist Michael Taussig equates maleficium to state fetishism. If ever these concepts sound obscure, Taussig laments that it is because they have been “so studiously, so dangerously ignored… (1992:11).” Marx renders fetishism plain and clear. “By fetishism, Marx was referring to the…