What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? This question is discussed by anthropologist Michael Taussig for whom fieldwork notebooks are an indispensable tool. Starting point of his investigation is Walter Benjamin who obsessively filled his notebooks and was intrigued by their materiality. Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier, and Joan Didion are some of the many other notorious note writers that Taussig refers to, to crystallize what a notebook really is. Far more than a mere "thing," it develops a life of its own, which is fed exactly by what hasn't been written down. And in the end it takes possession of its possessor: the notebook is a magical object, it's a fetish.
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