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The Minor Gesture
Erin Manning
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Description for The Minor Gesture
Paperback. In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning develops the concept of the minor gesture to rethink common assumptions about human agency, the ways we experience the everyday world, and the possibilities for new political praxis. Series: Thought in the Act. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 photographs. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFFG; MJNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Thought in the Act
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361213
SKU
V9780822361213
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About Erin Manning
Erin Manning is University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She is the author of several books, including Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for The Minor Gesture
A wide-ranging and carefully argued book. . . . Now that we know just how much mental activity escapes our conscious awareness and defies standard and dialectical accounts of knowledge, reason, and agency, efforts like Manning's to better understand neurodiversity and to mobilize that understanding for research-creation and political activism alike are invaluable.
Eugene W. Holland
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