This exciting and different book examines and discusses a particular photograph made by Ed Kienholz which depicts a castration of a black man by white supremacists, all of whom are mannequins. The photograph is odd, evocative and disturbing, and Lyotard's text explores its meanings in the Western world today, through the use of anecdote and conversational meditations. The book has a photograph printed on the outside cover and is encased in a yellow tinted sheet.