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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... tobe faced, it seems important tofinda way of expanding the capacity for action inaworld in which action is severely circumscribed. But itisnot the heroic, individualized and autonomousactionof acertainkind of activist– 'selfconfident ...
... tobe embodied. The netoutcome wouldbethat the textureof the feel and outcome ofthe everyday could be reworked as traditional forms of expression were slowly but surely breathed differently (Abrahams 2005). Whatis thenat issueis what ...
... tobe very much inlinewith Whitehead's monistic way of thinking abouttheworld. As Pred putsit: Whitehead extends the scopeof radical empiricism and,ineffect, pointstoawayto overcome the limitations inherent inthe spatiotemporal and ...
... tobe willed, cultivated orat least honed. Myown work hasbeen periodically guilty ofthissin,I am sure. Butthe experience of embodiment is not likethat at all; not everythingisfocused intensity. Embodiment includestripping, falling over ...
... tobe able to generalize this knowledgeto every part of the body without allowing it to regroup at any time– transcendant andunitary – as a spatialized figure inthe head. (Kwinter 2001: 29–30) But note here how the mountain ...
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