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12%OFFErin Manning - Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience - 9780816679676 - V9780816679676
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Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience

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Description for Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.

“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, ... Read more

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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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679676
SKU
V9780816679676
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Ref
99-50

About Erin Manning
Erin Manning is University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance. Brian Massumi is professor of communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author, most recently, of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the ... Read more

Reviews for Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience
 "Erin Manning and Brian Massumi have written a fascinating and ground-breaking book that deserves wide attention. An exemplar of how to do theory in an exploratory and process-oriented way." —Jane Bennett, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things "It is at once a poetic encounter with the works of art presented over the course of the book, and ... Read more

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