I swear I saw this - Michael Taussig

- Imaginative logic of discovery.
- Page 3 of book - ' The word 'cattle' is the root of capital as in capitalism.'
- He makes reference to peasants and plaumetirians.
- Makes references to Barthes - Page 6. The idea of ' The third meaning.'
- Quote page 7 - Genet -'Put all the images in language in a place of safety and make use of them , for they are in the desert, and it's in the desert we must go and look for them.'
- Walter Benjamin - Surrealism- page 22.

-‘Drawing is thus depicting, a hauling, an unravelling, and
being impelled towards something or somebody.’ (Taussig, 2011) Michael Taussig,
an Australian Anthropologist, produced a book in 2011 I swear I saw this. Within the
book Taussig describes his own account of a trip to Colombia where he was being
driven, in a taxi, and saw a scene out of the window. He describes seeing a
homeless woman and her husband in the side of the road, she is stitching herself
into a sleeping bag. This was a fleeting observation and so Taussig decided to
sketch the scene down from memory with notes alongside. (image below)The drawings are not
particularly strong but they met the purpose of recording and analysing the
observation he made.