Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

CORPSE MAGIC

MICHAEL TAUSSIG

Campus Luigi Einaudi!
22 Maggio 2019
Aula Magna
15-18

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Introduce
Roberto Beneduce
antropologo
(DCPS, Università di Torino)!
Modera
Simona Taliani
antropologa
(DCPS, Università di Torino)
Discute
Jasmine Pisapia
antropologa
(Comumbia University)

Killing of humans or animals creates a bond between killer and killed which in some instances amounts to the victim inhabiting the body and being of the slayer. What to think, then, of the killing by US police of three people per day (disproportionately Native American and black), let alone school shootings, gang shootings and other massacres in that fair land, especially the past decade as cell phone images of actual killing break through the taboos against the representation of killing