Hi there Everyone, 

Hope all's well...

We've been busy preparing a number of new titles for print while drawing our Austin Osman Spare Kickstarter campaign to a close, but we just wanted to alert friends in the US to a special upcoming event with legendary anthropologist Michael Taussig at the Colloquium For Unpopular Culture, NYU, on Saturday April 13th.

This intimate talk is being hosted by our good friend Sukhdev Sandhu, and will celebrate the launch of Postcards For Mia, available from Strange Attractor Press now. 

More info below!

All the best,

Jamie & Mark
 

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents

MICHAEL TAUSSIG, POSTCARDS FOR MIA

WHEN: Saturday 13 April 2024, 2:30pm
WHERE: Immersion Room, 7th Floor, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
Free, open to public. Non-NYU guests must RSVP: ss162@nyu.edu

Airports in New York, cemeteries in Colombia, confrontations with wild boars, conversations with well-dressed koalas: Postcards For Mia is a joyful collection of hand-drawn and hand-painted postcards sent by anthropologist Michael Taussig to his granddaughter Mia when she was between three and five years old.

Journeys, colour, life. Is it true that what can be shown cannot be said? Writes Taussig, "Children are encouraged to draw in kindergarten, yet when they turn five or six years of age writing takes over and drawing is considered, well, childish. Except for the chosen few who have 'talent', adults believe they cannot draw. Drawings such as tiny postcards are downright embarrassing. Thus to draw a postcard is to unwind this self-effacement and enter into a conspiracy with the child for whom the card is made."

Taussig will be talking about postcards in the digital age. And asking: why draw at all? And also: how do these impulses stem from the AICI - meaning the adult's imagination of the child's imagination?

MICHAEL TAUSSIG is a writer and an anthropologist. His books include The Magic of the State, I Swear I Saw This, and Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown. According to Emily Eakins in the New York Times, "He is the innovator and most extreme practitioner of what he calls fictocriticism and what might fairly be called gonzo anthropology."

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Copies of Postcards for Mia (Strange Attractor Press) will be available for purchase and signing.

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THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE (est. 2007): falling and laughing...