But just as we might garner courage to reinvent a new world and live new fictions--what a sociology that would be!--so a devouring force comes at us from another direction, seducing us by playing on our yearning for the true real. Would that it would, would that it could, this true real. I so badly want that wink of recognition, that complicity with the nature of nature.
Michael Taussig
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses, xvii


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