The Minor Gesture

Informationen zum Autor Erin Manning Klappentext 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.¿ Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Erin Manning, Erin (Los Angeles Manning
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780822361213
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6121-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Thought in the Act; Thought in the Act
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day