Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism Fraudulent and Genuine (1920) Book

Thought-experiment is where it's at. Agamben discusses this in his new book, where as asks the enlightenment question, What is A Paradigm?" In like with Goethe's Urphenomenon, he proposes the experiment, neither universal nor particular, as the meeting place of object and subject. Taussig is writing at this crossroads. Working neither inductively upward nor deductively downward to give us a view of South American which is constructed out of neither pure method or raw data, Taussig presents that region in the form of pure analogue one he can only make available by becoming it and then pointing to himself. If this is narcissism - and certain reviewers have charged Taussig with as much - at least it's a form of narcissism which knows, thanks to a careful reading of Callois, what narcissism is - a form of becoming other.