Manning The Minor Gesture

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7441-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Thought in the Act

In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning develops the concept of the minor gesture to rethink common assumptions about human agency, the ways we experience the everyday world, and the possibilities for new political praxis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manning, Erin

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction: In a Minor Key 1

1. Against Method 26

2. Artfulness: Emergent Collectives and Processes of Individuation 46

3. Weather Patterns, or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment 64

4. Dress Becomes Body: Fashioning the Force of Form 86

5. Choreographing the Political 111

6. Carrying the Feeling 131

7. In the Act: The Shape of Precarity 165

8. What a Body Can Do: A Conversation with Arno Boehler 189

Postscript: Affirmation without Credit 201

Notes 233

References 261

Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Erin Manning is University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She is the author of several books, including Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance, also published by Duke University Press.