Bodies in the streets : the somaesthetics of city life / edited by Richard Shusterman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shusterman, Richard, editor.

Series:

Studies in Somaesthetics; volume02.

Studies in Somaesthetics; volume02

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life.

Streetscapes (Urban design).

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and patrolling police. As bodies shape city life, so the city’s spaces, structures, economies, politics, rhythms, and atmospheres reciprocally shape the urban soma. This collection of original essays explores the somaesthetic qualities and challenges of city life (in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas) from a variety of perspectives ranging from philosophy, urban theory, political theory, and gender studies to visual art, criminology, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Together these essays illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles and trials of bodies in the city streets.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page / Richard Shusterman

Illustrations / Richard Shusterman

Contributors / Richard Shusterman

Bodies in the Streets and the Somaesthetics of City Life / Richard Shusterman

The Soma, the City, and the Weather / Richard Shusterman

Bodies in the Streets: The Soma, the City, and the Art of Living / Richard Shusterman

The Weather-Worlds of Urban Bodies / Mădălina Diaconu

White on Black: Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen / Henrik Reeh

Festival, Revolution, and Death / Richard Shusterman

Body Politics: Revolt and City Celebration / Matthew Crippen

Bodies in the Streets of Eastern Europe: Rhetorical Space and the Somaesthetics of Revolution / Noemi Marin

From Dancing to Dying in the Streets: Somaesthetics of the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment and Juan of the Dead / Marilyn G. Miller

Performances of Resistance, Gender, and Crime / Richard Shusterman

“Street” is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces / Ilaria Serra

Bodies in Alliance and New Sites of Resistance: Performing the Political in Neoliberal Public Spaces / Federica Castelli

East End Prostitution and the Fear of Contagion: On Body Consciousness of the Ripper Case / Chung-jen Chen

Towards a Somaesthetic Conception of Culture in Iran: Somaesthetic Performance as Cultural Praxis in Tehran / Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

Bodies in the Streets of Literature and Art / Richard Shusterman

“Terrae Incognitae”: The Somaesthetics of Thomas De Quincey’s Psychogeography / Evy Varsamopoulou

The Empty Spaces You Run Into: The City as Character and Background in William S. Burroughs’s Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch / Robert W. Jones

The Somaesthetic Sublime: Varanasi in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art / Pradeep A. Dhillon

Back Matter

Name Index / Richard Shusterman.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

90-04-41113-5

OCLC:

1111650104

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004411135 DOI