Tag Archives: Marcel Mauss

Convulsive Beauty

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

“Imagine for a moment – if you possibly can . . . “ ~ Marcel Mauss “Fashion is the last repository of the marvelous.” ~ Christian Dior Malcolm Mclaren Interview at PS1, NYC “Spectacular Failure” (listen to excerpt from The … Continue reading →

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The Magic World View

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

“Imagine for a moment – if you possibly can . . . “ ~ Marcel Mauss “Fashion is the last repository of the marvelous.” ~ Christian Dior

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Marcel Mauss and Henry Petroski – The Persistence of Magic in Modern Science

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Mauss, in Magic as well as Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function, very clearly shows how magic ritual can in fact be poetically anatomized—quite like Aristotelian drama–into component parts: plot, character, idea, diction, spectacle and music. Yet Mauss distinguishes himself from … Continue reading →

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Collective Experience and The Magic World View

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

One thing that makes Marcel Mauss hard to read, if you actually do bother to read him at all, is the fact that he writes with a density reminiscent of that of the virtually impenetrable Immanuel Kant. This should not … Continue reading →

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