"Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To
dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color.
To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world's varied ways
of affording itself." --from "Thought in the Act
"Combining philosophy and aesthetics, "Thought in the Act" is a
unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking.
Challenging the common opposition between the conceptual and the
aesthetic, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi "think through" a wide
range of creative practices in the process of their making,
revealing how thinking and artfulness are intimately, creatively,
and inseparably intertwined. They rediscover this intertwining at
the heart of everyday perception and investigate its potential for
new forms of activism at the crossroads of politics and art.
Emerging from active collaborations, the book analyzes the
experiential work of the architects and conceptual artists Arakawa
and Gins, the improvisational choreographic techniques of William
Forsythe, the recent painting practice of Bracha Ettinger, as well
as autistic writers' self-descriptions of their perceptual world
and the experimental event making of the SenseLab collective.
Drawing from the idiosyncratic vocabularies of each creative
practice, and building on the vocabulary of process philosophy, the
book reactivates rather than merely describes the artistic
processes it examines. The result is a thinking-with and a
writing-in-collaboration-with these processes and a demonstration
of how philosophy co-composes with the act in the making. "Thought
in the Act" enacts a collaborative mode of thinking in the act at
the intersection of art, philosophy, and politics.
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