The Minor Gesture
Erin Manning
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Description for The Minor Gesture
Hardback. 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: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Thought in the Act
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361039
SKU
V9780822361039
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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
"Manning emphasizes a kind of affect that brings to the fore a feeling of being a part of a larger environment, something relational, something that helps people to see themselves as part of something bigger."
Karen Simecek
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"The Minor Gesture is a fascinating and intellectually challenging book that successfully problematises ... Read more
Karen Simecek
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"The Minor Gesture is a fascinating and intellectually challenging book that successfully problematises ... Read more