preemptively apocalyptic knowledge

is, as with the machine which begins to break down that you begin to see how it works, knowledge that it is when authority is challenged that you begin to see the otherwise concealed workings of the power structure.

The mere possibility that this could happen should be sufficient for us to consider other forms of the body's knowing itself as a consequence of planetary crisis and meltdown. It is when the machine begins to break down that you begin to see how it works. Likewise it is when authority is challenged that you begin to see the otherwise concealed workings of the power structure. This we could call apocalyptic knowledge, or preemptively apocalyptic knowledge, a thought experiment we can now conduct on ourselves and which in my case, which is the book before you, involves interrogating color as an offshoot of calor---for example, when you heat a pocketknife, as did Goethe, and feel the colors emanating therefrom, 'passing like a breath,' he says, flowing and changing at red heat to a beatiful blue and beyond. (Taussig 14)

preemptively apocalyptic knowledge, n.Definitions

preemptively apocalyptic knowledge