On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets

On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture. David Graeber, author Direct Action: An Ethnography, examines the 'anti-globalization' movement and its practices.

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