MAGIC & PHANTASMAGORIA

Magic has always fascinated me as it continues to fascinate many people. I’m currently writing a book titled, Two Faces of Magic, that examines the relation between what some societies consider to be real magic and conjuring, i.e. magic-trick magic. Phantasmagoria is the title of an unfinished book about the relation between the European avant-garde, the art of indigenous peoples, and global capitalism

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MAGIC
Excerps from Two Faces of Magic

PHANTASMAGORIA
Phantasmagoria – Introduction:
Phantasmagoria – Part One: Primitive Accumulation: Chapter One – Civilization and Barbarism in the New World
Phantasmagoria – Part One: Primitive Accumulation: Chapter Two – Kongo and the Iconoclastic Controversy
Phantasmagoria – Part One: Primitive Accumulation: Chapter Three – Enlightenment in the South Pacific
Phantasmagoria – Part One: Primitive Accumulation: Chapter Four – Curiosity Cabinets, World’s Fairs, and Ethnographic Museums
Phantasmagoria – Part Two: Marx and the Fetish: Chapter Five – At the British Museum