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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... .5 Then,thirdand finally, the book is intended asa politicalcontribution tothe taskof reconsidering our hopes for ourselves.Thisis, after all, a timeinwhich the inventionof new 'everyday' forms of democracy has become a part of the.
Space, Politics, Affect Nigel Thrift. 'everyday' forms of democracy has become a part of the political ambition of many people, in which the 'local' and the 'global' have become increasingly awkward politicalterms but no satisfactory ...
... forms of expression were slowly but surely breathed differently (Abrahams 2005). Whatis thenat issueis what formthesepractices would take. There is nothingthat automatically leads them towards suchforms of generosity, after all.In a ...
... forms of things seriously (Critchley 2005) –ratherthan seeing thingsas mere cladding.24 Things answer back;'not only doesour existence articulate that of an object throughthe languageofour perceptions, theobject calls out thatlanguage ...
... forms of life inwhich'strangeness itself [is] thelocusof newformsof neighborliness and community' (Santner2001: 6).In turn, thisethic of noveltycan be connected to the generalthemeof 'more life', forit suggests a particular form of ...
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