“ Topics during the semester have included Glenn Beck, an R.V. that can go two thousand miles without stopping for gas, Walter Benjamin, 9/11, Las Vegas, and apocalyptic Yiddish poetry, which reminded Taussig of a song by the Fugs called “Septuagenarian in Love.”
Julia Ioffe’s Talk of the Town piece in this week’s New Yorker on Michael Taussig’s Columbia graduate seminar regarding the apocalypse (official title:”Preëmptive Apocalyptic Thought: The Angel of History Reconsidered in Light of Climate Change, the War on Terror, and the Financial Meltdown.”)
This is why we loved Taussig at Santa Cruz: everything is ripe for deconstruction and discussion in his work. I can only pray this is the focus of his next book.
