MICHAEL TAUSSIG/ FIELDWORK NOTEBOOKS

What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? Anthropologist Michael Taussig, for whom fieldwork notebooks are an indispensable to ol, discusses this very question. A starting point of his investigation is Walter Benjamin, who obsessively filled his own notebooks and was intrigued by their materiality. Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier, and Joan Didion are some of the many other notorious note tak ers that Taussig visits so as to crystallize his ideas of what a notebook really is. Far more than a mere thing, Taussig argues th at a noteb...[Read more]