William Mazzarella is the Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in India (2003), Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity (2013), The Mana of Mass Society (2017), and Magnetizer: A Fable of Spirit (forthcoming). He is the co-editor, with Raminder Kaur, of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (2009), the editor of K D Katrak: Collected Poems (2016), and the co-author, with Eric Santner and Aaron Schuster, of Sovereignty Inc: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (2020).
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I might as well begin with two servings of fascist potatoes. The first comes from Wilhelm Reich, the great renegade psychoanalyst, who observed in 1934 that “Hitler’s gift of a sack of
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