Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, AffectRoutledge, 25 mar. 2008 - 336 pagini This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:
A groundbreaking and comprehensive introduction to this key topic, Thrift’s outstanding work brings together further writings from a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. This noteworthy book makes a significant contribution to the literature in this area and is essential reading for researchers and postgraduates in the fields of social theory, sociology, geography, anthropology and cultural studies. |
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... consciousness of the worldthat too quickly fallsinto acallfor 'aquick revolutionary fix that will please everyone and just reinforce a cosy feeling of powerlessness' (Lotringer 2004: 18). 9 But I think there is more to it than that ...
... consciousness]. Instead of merely taking a 'general view of the wonderful streamof our consciousness', Whitehead goes'into' the moment. He refuses to abstract fromthe moment, any moment, understood as an act of experience issuing from ...
... consciousness is such a narrow window of perception thatitcouldbe arguedthatit could not be otherwise. As Donald (2001) makes clear, defined in a narrow way, consciousness seems to be a very poor thing indeed, a window of time ...
... consciousness shows up as shortterm because of the artificialityof the situation demandedby the researcher. Rather, cognitionshould be seen as an emergent outcomeofstrategic jointaction forwhichit actsasa guidancefunction, monitoringand ...
... conscious, thatis;it heavily engages our conscious activity' (Donald 2001: 68).Inother words, cognition has not onlya performative aspect but a'theoretical' aspect too(thetwobeing related)and these aspects are a key to what is often ...
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