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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... thought is never anobject in its own hands' (James 1960 [1890]: 522). This approach seems to me tobe very much inlinewith Whitehead's monistic way of thinking abouttheworld. As Pred putsit: Whitehead extends the scopeof radical ...
... multiple registers of sensation operating beyondthereachof the reading techniques onwhich the social sciences are founded. Culture is, in thissense, an 'involuntary adventure' (Toscano 2004) in which, in a Whiteheadian vein, thought.
... thought is the operation that constitutes the thinker (who is constituted inthe occasion), rather than vice versa (Alliez 2004a). This bringsme directly tothe topic of affect. Thus,sixth, I wantto getintouch with thefullrangeof ...
... thought of as an opportunity tobuildnew forms of life inwhich'strangeness itself [is] thelocusof newformsof ... thoughts on 'becomingimperceptible' in which extinguishing theself allows all kinds of unexpected futures to be opened up and.
... thought of as a flourishingof potential in act,42not in the sense of the realization of some proper form,but rather as a departure from whatis–a potentialitythatis broughtinto beingonly asit acts orexists in theintersticesof interaction ...
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