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Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board
Motility draws from critical cultural studies, political
philosophy, postcolonial studies, urban sociology, and
poststructuralist theory in the context of human communication and
performance to construct an epistemology of riding boards. This
book ponders why we move the way we do and examines the ways in
which movements communicate, developing, as a result, a theoretical
perspective or board motility that is gestural and fluid, moving in
relation to shifting social and physical landscapes. By combining
the discourses and practices of critical theory and physical
movement, this text presents a sustained analysis of radical
political philosophy. In the book the symbolic narratives
associated with each physical practice are deconstructed as their
theoretical counterparts are thoroughly established. Then, through
performance, the author narrows the divide between these two forms
of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, outlining and embodying an
ontological and epistemological stoke in the process that emerges
from riding boards, on both waves and streets.
Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space draws from cultural
studies, rhetorical theory, and political philosophy to examine
bicycling and motorcycling as serious forms of communication and
even thought. By analyzing how everyday movements function in
modern and postmodern contexts, Fine is able to determine the
social meanings behind human powered and motorized forms of
cycling. Through the lenses of sophistic rhetoric and
poststructuralist theory, the author uncovers how such mobilities
inform our thoughts and interactions. Throughout history, this
informing process has promoted specific ways of thinking that have
resulted in moments of protest, conquest, awareness, and
transgression, which all involve a cycling rhetoric. This book
contributes to various academic fields within the liberal arts and
humanities while further establishing bicycling and motorcycling as
important social, theoretical, and political areas of inquiry.
Scholars of rhetoric, communication studies, cultural studies, and
philosophy will find this book of particular interest.
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