Monday, December 11, 2023

The Gun Fetish: The Gun AS people...Professor Michael Taussig on apotropaic shadowlessness magical protection

 Bear in mind the magic of the corpse as Bataille sees it, as what enhances the sacredness of the Church, negative and positive poles in harness, so to speak, like an alchemist’s retort.

https://www.novembermag.com/content/michael-taussig 

The majestic blob - the formless form.....shapeless, has no shadow... shadowlessness

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nn49OX6VJE

https://digital-ethnography.com/news/shadowless-being-with-professor-michael-taussig/ 

 Does thought have a shape? Consider a charm used to thwart sorcery, but first the apotropaic properties of shadowlessness on the part of killers. Consider a charm used to thwart sorcery, but first the apotropaic properties of shadowlessness on the part of killers.

ap·o·tro·pa·ic
/ˌapətrəˈpāik/
adjective
  1. supposedly having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck.
    "apotropaic statues"
Origin

 He's focused on bullets being anointed with Holy Oil and an indigenous plant - ... in the Colombian army and paramilitary.... using indigenous shamans.... to become bullet proof by being protected by a spirit of the dead....so the "secretive wing" of the army, as the paramilitary, uses secret invisible power of magic...to counteract the communists or FARC being "everywhere" secretly despite the 2016 truce....

fear of spiritual retribution for murder - the function of the gun is a magical charm... via the 2nd amendment ... a "hunting rifle" was the term used for the AR-15 - since people of color were then labeled by inference as prey. So people are transformed into THINGS and the gun is transformed into a PERSON....

So the magical charms are phallic forms....be it a gun or animal horn... ambiguity....as compounding meaning and signs as semiotics...shape-shifting contortion...




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