Somapower : somaesthetics reads politics / edited by Leszek Koczanowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koczanowicz, Leszek, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in somaesthetics ; v. 8.

Studies in somaesthetics ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Physiological aspects.

Aesthetics.

Human body (Philosophy).

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface: Somapower

or, Somaesthetics Reads Politics

References

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Practices of Somaesthetic Resistance

1 For a Somaesthetics of Carceral Resistance: Dissociation, Sensation, and the Intercorporeal Field

Abstract

Keywords

1 Penality and Sensation: the Case of Solitary Confinement

2 Toward a Political Concept of Dissociation

3 Carceral Somaesthetics

4 Perceiving the Somatic Field: Neurodiversity and Relational Perception

5 Somaesthetic Resistance

6 Sensing the Field in Carceral Spaces

7 The Practice: Sensing the Body, Sensing the Field

2 Misfit Mutiny: Somaesthetic Discomfort against the Abjection

1 Somaesthetic Discomfort

2 Misfitting and Non-normate Discomfort

3 Conclusion

3 Somaesthetics and the Somatic Experience of White Privilege

1 Getting One's Own House in Order

2 Somaesthetics and Whiteness

3 White Privilege as a Somatic Social Practice

4 Toward a New White Self via Somatic Style

5 Conclusion

4 Body Ecology and Digital Urbanism: Assimilation-Resistance-Hybridity

Abstract

1 The Dawn of Digital Urbanism

2 As in VR, so Below: so Below, so in VR

the Urban Hybridity

3 The Metaverse and the Metaverse(d) City

4 B x C x D = AHH

5 Hacking the Hacker? The Logic of Resistance in Hybrid Urban Environments

6 Body Ecology and Hybridity: a New Approach to Digital Urbanism

7 Conclusion

5 The Body as a Place of Resistance to the Pandemic Politics of Global Corporations: Recovering

1 From the Disciplinary Society to the Society of Control: Digital Modulations of Lives and Identities

2 The Governance of Global Corporations and the Pandemic Engineering of the Population

3 Recovering Sensibility as a Political and Economic Stake

Part 2: Somaesthetics of Taste

6 Cooking as Somaesthetic and Political Education

7 Pragmatist Aesthetics, Ethics of Taste, and Feminism

1 Pragmatist Aesthetics and Ethics

2 The Aestheticization of the Ethical (and the Ethicization of the Aesthetic)

3 Neo-pragmatist Aesthetics and Ethics: Shusterman with/against Rorty

4 Somaesthetic Developments and Feminist Issues

4.1 The Sexed Soma between Nature and Culture

4.2 Somaesthetics and the Dialectics of Lovemaking

4.3 Feminist Directions in Somaesthetic Research

Acknowledgments

8 Somaesthetics and the Political Potential of Taste

1 Food, Politics, and Somatic Style

2 Owl and Friends: or, the Genealogy of Modern Eating in Poland

3 Conclusion: Somaesthetics and the Political Relevance of Food

9 Biopower and Somapower: Suggesting a Theoretical Framework on a Heraclitan Basis

1 Some Heraclitan Fragments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

2 Biopower versus Somapower as a Heraclitan Contradiction

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Koczanowicz, Leszek Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics

ISBN:

9789004697805

9004697802

Publisher Number:

40032601192

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