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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... sense, answering this quest/question about questioning is precisely what therestof this book attempts to do. In theremaining pagesofthis introductory chapter,Iwill introduce some of themain themesthatwill be taken up in the chapters of ...
... sense of the situation tohand, and thisunremitting workofactive reaction imposesenormous evaluative demands, equally enormous demands on intermediate memory, and similarly large demands on the general managementof attention. Indeed ...
... sense of oneness. Theother seems to metoprovide a suspect intimacy with the dead.AsPhillips (1999: 74)putsit, 'Biography, forFreud, wasa monument to thebelief thatlives were theretobeknown andunderstood, rather thanendlessly redescribed ...
... sense of embodied experience' (Schwenger 2006:3). Buthowto describe what Walter Benjamin called the'petrifiedunrest'of things?Three main moves seem particularly apposite.Tobeginwith, things become part ofhybrid assemblages: concretions ...
... sense the notion that humans arevery different from knives orpaper' (Harman 2002:30).Rather, the tool itselfis bound up in a specific empire of functions, a system that takesits meaning from some particular projection, some ...
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