Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty - Softcover

Manning, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081664845X ISBN 13: 9780816648450

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2006

Synopsis

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).

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Politics of Touch 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 nationa... Full description

Synopsis:

Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of political philosophy, Manning (fine arts, Concordia U.) examines how sensing bodies run up against existing political structures and how new politics can arise to challenge the body politic. Manning explores concepts of violence, gender, sexuality, security, democracy and identity in order

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 081664845X
• ISBN 13: 9780816648450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240