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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... understand the way inwhich thingshave another genetic disposition that needs to be mentioned at this point. That is what Simondon (1989) calls their 'technicity', their actual collectivecharacter asa 'technology' (the wordbeing placed ...
... understand the virtual as 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 ...
... understand affect asthe way in which each 'thing' in acting, living, and strivingto preserveitsown being is'nothing but theactual essenceofthe thing' (Spinosaetal. 1997).Thus, Thereis no longer a subject, butonly individuating affective ...
... understanding the worlds (Levinson 2003). Then there is the consequent ability of joint action periodically to work across differentsocial fields, refusingto respect boundaries.And finallythere is the 'adaptive unconscious' (Wilson 2002) ...
... understanding of understanding (Hurley andChater 2005) and, indeed, desire. 39 The aforegoingparagraphs allowmeto say something, finally, about ethics.40Ihavebeen paintinga veryfaint view ofhuman agency,toputit mildly. Theclassical ...
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