Politics of touch : sense, movement, sovereignty / Erin Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Erin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behaviorism (Political science).

Touch--Political aspects.

Touch.

Sex role--Political aspects.

Sex role.

Tango (Dance)--Social aspects.

Tango (Dance).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 examines how 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 nuanced understanding of the role of the senses and of touch in particular. Exploring concepts of violence, gender, sexuality, security, democracy, and identit

Contents:

Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions

Bodies on the move-political recompositions

Negotiating influence: touch and tango

Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch

Happy together: moving toward multiplicity

Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango

Erring toward experience: violence and touch

Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden

Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation

Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics

Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy

Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics

Sensing beyond security: what a body can do

Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9860-0

OCLC:

476120185