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Zone Books The Normal and the Pathological
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Zone Books Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
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Zone Books Matter and Memory
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Zone Books Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
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Zone Books Counterrevolution
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Zone Books The Everyday Life of Memorials
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Zone Books The Chinese Pleasure Book
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Zone Books Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life
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Zone Books The Organism
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Zone Books The Life of Forms in Art
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Zone Books A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
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Zone Books Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
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Zone Books Absentees – On Variously Missing Persons
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Zone Books The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
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Zone Books Nongovernmental Politics
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Zone Books Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts
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Zone Books Iconophages
An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth centuryEating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated—taken into the body—as solids or liquids.How can we explain such behavior? Why take an image into one’s own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating it wisely from a distance? What structures of the imagination underlie and justify these desires for incorporation? What are the visual configurations offered up to the mouth, and w
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