Relationscapes : movement, art, philosophy / Erin Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Erin.

Series:

Technologies of lived abstraction.

Technologies of lived abstraction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movement (Philosophy).

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 268 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and the new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement, developing the concept of preacceleration which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.

Contents:

Prelude: What moves as a body returns as a movement of thought

Introduction: Events of relation : concepts in the making

Incipient action : the dance of the not-yet

The elasticity of the almost

Interlude: A mover's guide to standing still

Taking the next step

Dancing the technogenetic body

Interlude: Perceptions in folding

Grace taking form : Marey's movement machines

Interlude: Animation's dance

From biopolitics to the biogram, or, how Leni Riefenstahl moves through fascism

Interlude: Of force fields and rhythm contours : David Sprigg's animate sculptures

Relationscapes : how contemporary Aboriginal art moves beyond the map

Constituting facts : Dorothy Napangardi dances the dreaming

Interlude: Cornering a beginning

Conclusion: Propositions for thought in motion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9786612240188

1-282-24018-8

0-262-25515-4

OCLC:

319069931