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In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her
previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of
the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost
unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance
variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common
assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the
minor gesture's power to fashion relations, its capacity to open
new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge
the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues
alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world-in
particular what Manning terms "autistic perception." Drawing on
Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis and Whitehead's speculative
pragmatism, Manning's far-reaching analyses range from fashion to
depression to the writings of autistics, in each case affirming the
neurodiversity of the minor and the alternative politics it
gestures toward.
"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.
Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking
about the body and the senses. Through an engagement with the
state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, "Politics of Touch"
explores the ways in which sensing bodies continually run up
against existing political structures. In this groundbreaking work,
Erin Manning reconsiders how new politics can arise that challenge
the national body politic.
In "Politics of Touch," Manning develops a new way to conceive the
role of the senses, and of touch in particular. Exploring concepts
of violence, gender, sexuality, security, democracy, and identity,
she traces the ways in which touch informs and reforms the body.
Specifically considering tango-a tactile, rhythmic, and
improvisational dance- she foregrounds movement as the sensing
body's intervention into the political. With a fresh vision and an
original theoretical basis, Manning shows the ontogenetic potential
of the body, and in doing so, redefines our understanding of the
sense of touch in philosophical and political terms.
Erin Manning is assistant professor of fine arts at Concordia
University and the author of Ephemeral Territories (Minnesota,
2003).
How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question
exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and
Whitehead's philosophy, with particular attention to his
understanding of propositions. Edited by Roland Faber, Michael
Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis, Propositions in the Making
articulates the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a
postmodern world. It does so by activating interdisciplinary lures
of feeling, living, and co-creating the world anew. Rather than a
"logical assertion," Whitehead described a proposition as a "lure
for feeling" for a collectivity to come. It cannot be reduced to
the verbal content of logical justifications, but rather the
feeling content of aesthetic valuations. In creatively expressing
these propositions in wide relevance to existential, ethical,
educational, theological, aesthetic, technological, and societal
concerns, the contributors to this volume enact nothing short of "a
Whiteheadian Laboratory."
What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless
now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls
through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning
examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions
and established standards of value, not for want of potential but
for carrying an excess of it. The figures are various: the
infrathin, the artful, proprioceptive tactility, neurodiversity,
black life. It is around the latter two that a central refrain
echoes: "All black life is neurodiverse life." This is not an
equation, but an "approximation of proximity." Manning shows how
neurotypicality and whiteness combine to form a normative baseline
for existence. Blackness and neurodiversity "schizz" around the
baseline, uselessly, pragmatically, figuring a more-than of life
living. Manning, in dialogue with Felix Guattari and drawing on the
black radical tradition's accounts of black life and the aesthetics
of black sociality, proposes a "schizoanalysis" of the more-than,
charting a panoply of techniques for other ways of living and
learning.
In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her
previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of
the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost
unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance
variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common
assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the
minor gesture's power to fashion relations, its capacity to open
new modes of experience and manners of expression, is to challenge
the ways in which the neurotypical image of the human devalues
alternative ways of being moved by and moving through the world-in
particular what Manning terms "autistic perception." Drawing on
Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis and Whitehead's speculative
pragmatism, Manning's far-reaching analyses range from fashion to
depression to the writings of autistics, in each case affirming the
neurodiversity of the minor and the alternative politics it
gestures toward.
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